Re: Share files remotely

On 16 Mar 2007 05:02:45 GMT
jpd <read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On 2007-03-15, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 15 Mar 2007 18:23:24 GMT
jpd <read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, VPN comes down to tunneling in one form or another, whichever way

Well yes but not simple port forwarding style tunneling.
Although I have seen VPN done with PPP over ssh tunnels before now.

You can, much like you can tunnel ``through'' ICMP or DNS traffic, but
it's better to use UDP or a specific tunnel protocol as the transport.
I've seen an example of using netgraph to cobble such a thing together.
Or IPsec, if you don't mind its particular headaches.

Oh sure - but if the only way through the corporate firewall is
ssh, then ssh is what you use.

Where would you run the nmbd ? I'm assuming that the home user
has nothing but a single Windows box and that everything but the ssh
gateway in the office is locked out.

Inside your network. Once the client can reach the nmbd it can ask
questions like, well, all the blather it'd usually shout around on the
local segment. I'd run one to cut the broadcasting a bit anyway.

That requires another box on the home LAN yes ?

The problem was that the work network and my home LAN both use the
same bit of RFC1918 space so when the VPN is up the laptop can't see
my home LAN, which messes up synergy so I don't use it often.

One reason why I intensely dislike those cheap crap router boxes that
hard-code using 192.168.1.0/24. I've heard some poor boob call it
``industry standard addresses''. That's what you get for shoving IT
services with the building maintenance. It forced me to use double-NAT

A common reason but not in this case, the problem is that the
internal network is very large and has grown partly by acquisitions and so
it occupies a lot of the RFC1918 space and the VPN sets up routes for a lot
(perhaps all) of the RFC1918 space.

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