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by sjb_xexec 1 view

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I have my webservers at Exodus (a remote webhost place), and i want access from the LAN here to the LAN there.

We run win2k and linux here and win nt 4 at the webhosts. I believe that I really need some kind of VPN solution. I can access the local (test) webserver as \\web1\userpages (doh) but i don't know how to do this remotely. The remote servers do not currently have an ftp server.

Any ideas? We have 512k bandwidth at office end, and 10meg at remote server end.

Currently I am thinking about two ideas:
(a) run an ftp server on the webservers, rooted at c:\, with an IPsec tunnel from the PIX firewall there to FreeS/WAN on the linux firewall here, and allow ftp access from the ipsec tunnel only.

(b) run netbios (!) over theipsec tunnel, fiddle about with lmhosts, and be able to browse directly..., as before re ipsec and pix rules.

Neither of these is particularly elegant, is it? SMB over half-duplex networks is sloooow cos of all the crc-checking etc...
Any ideas?

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by seanrinva

I'd recommend setting up an SSH server on the webservers that does 3DES encryption. Next, you can use an SSH client on the workstations to set up the tunnel - over the tunnel, you can run WinVNC (from the Windows clients) or simply the command-linewithin SSH from the Linux clients.

With WinVNC over the SSH tunnel, it will appear as if you were sitting at the servers, but encrypted.

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