Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:52:38 +0200 From: "mdff" <nospam@mgedv.net> To: "'Norberto Meijome'" <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: encrypted file sharing bsd<-->winxp/2k3 Message-ID: <20051011135238.E087E186800@mgedv.at> In-Reply-To: <434BB776.5030209@meijome.net>
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> mdff wrote: > >>>staying away from ipsec and hw-crypto-ether-cards how > >>>can i connect to network-shares on freebsd-boxes from > >>>windows-clients having the whole connection (auth and > >>>data stuff) encrypted? > >>>it should be possible to map the share as a nw-drive. > >>>br... > >>> > >> > >>VPN is probably your choice. Check out OpenVPN > >>(http://openvpn.net/) for a portable and relatively > >>easy-to-setup solution. > > > > > > thx for the hint, but we don't want VPN/tunnels/ipsec > > solutions for this. > > would you mind explaining why not? > > (I was going ot suggest SSH forwarding and then your protocol > of choice, > but that is a tunnel ). > because one user being authenticated on the windows client should be able to connect to another network share without needing to always startup a ipsec-connection, authenticate and re-map the drive (necessary because sometimes windows does not re-map the drive automatically). also, the admin- needs for vpn-host-client connections is much more, what we can't offer to the customer. technically the solution would fit, but the admin overhead would be too much.
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