[Nottingham] SAMBA websharing

[Graeme Fowler]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Martin wrote:
> David Wolfson wrote:
> > Is it possible to set up SAMBA to allow windows webaccess to mapped
> > drives?  Having just got a broadband connection I'm trying to sort
> 
> However, you should look at tunnelling/encrypting whatever shared mounts 
> with ssh or whatever.

Or... investigate the use of a VPN server on your Linux box at work (even 
better, install a new machine with a VPN server on it) and restrict access to 
authenticated users over the VPN. It's reasonably easy to install PoPToP or an 
IPSEC VPN server these days, and with Windows pointy-clickety interface it's 
even easier to use them...

...the only gotcha I can see with any of this is falling foul of the combined 
JANET or nottingham.ac.uk Acceptable Use Policies. If you ask nicely, you 
might even find that there's already a VPN server on campus that you can use.

G