Sharing files (ext. drive) with Windows from FC4

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 01:08, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> What is the best way to share files with Windows users from FC4 over
> an untrusted LAN? It would be great to have the functionality of SMB
> but with the security of sftp. More specifically, it would be nice if
> a Windows user could open files (play music) directly from the remote
> drive. 

Are you really that concerned that someone will steal your
music by sniffing the network stream?  Samba is reasonably
secure as far as password-controlled access goes.

> I am interested in doing this for an external hard drive. I've already
> sucessfully done it with simply mounting it and sftp, but the process
> on Windows side was somewhat clumsy.

Use apache with directory indexing and https if you want network
encryption.  IE will execute things according to their filename
extensions.  I'm not sure I'd call that secure...

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  Les Mikesell
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