RE: Samba + masq

["Tanner, Robby" <TANNER Wardrop com>]

You want to connect to the computers through the firewall, right?  If so,
the HOW-TO you are looking for involves VPN's (or Virtual Private Networks).

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jason Hirsch [SMTP:hirsch expert cc purdue edu]
> Sent:	Friday, February 11, 2000 8:41 AM
> To:	redhat-list redhat com
> Subject:	Samba + masq
> 
> Good Morning-
> 
> I have an interesting problem in need of an interesting solution.
> 
> My connection at school is limited to 1 ethernet jack.  To solve this I
> purchased a $47 computer.  It politely runs RH 6.1
> 
> Now, my old desktop ran win95 and had a headcrash on one of the primary
> drives; it now runs Linux on the 1.6 gig drive left functioning.  It sits
> _inside the box that masquerades for the inner 4 computers.
> 
> What I'd really really really like to do is be able to connect to that
> masqureading box, and have it map the internal computers as 'drives'
> available to connect to.  Security is a concern, being at a large
> university.. portscans and probes are done nearly every day.
> 
> I'd also like to run my zip drive off of that linux box, and be able to
> map that as well.
> 
> Is what I ask possible? (and suggested starting points- the samba howto
> didn't talk about seeing thru the wall)
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> Jason Hirsch
> 
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