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> > > Denny White wrote:

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> > > >That's all one line above. I dropped part of it down for the 72

> > > >character rule. As the article shows, instead of having to open

> > > >a cygwin prompt, then issue the tunneling command, the whole thing

> > > >can be automated with a script & a windows service started on boot.

> > > >When the user clicks start, run, types in the IP address & enter,

> > > >explorer will open showing them their samba shares. So, there's

> > > >the gui they crave. ;) Hope this helps some.

> > >

> > > That is interesting to read and I will sure have a look at it, but like

> > > you said, these are Windows users here. (;>

> > > It may never fly, but I am interested in looking into this however.

> > > Thanks for sharing it!

> > > Best,

> > > Daniel

> > >

> >

> > Glad to help if I can. One caveat to warn you about the windows

> > boxes, Daniel. I really had a hair pulling time on one & it turned

> > out to be because it had M$'s tools for unix administration on it.

> > It wasn't needed since cygwin was on there. I know it was running

> > nfs client services which also wasn't needed, left over from before

> > samba was totally incorporated across the network, and I'm not sure

> > what else, so there was undoubtedly something there conflicting with

> > cygrunsrv. Once the unix admin tools were uninstalled, and the box

> > rebooted & the tunnel established, when the clicking start-run-

> > typing in IP-enter crap was all done, the hookup was really fast.

> > I'm sure if you wanted you could reverse that & get rid of cygwin

> > & keep the unix tools running it's sshd as a service instead, but

> > I'm used to cygwin & actually kind of like it. It's helped me out

> > quite a bit in the past.

> >

> > --

> >

> > Denny White

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:17:25AM +0000, Stuart Henderson sez:

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> while this is a way if you _must_ use SMB/CIFS, I'm not too sure if a

> combination of samba, cygwin (which users won't bother to update once

> it's installed so no security fixes) and MS loopback adapter (for some

> client-breaks-their-own-network-and-shouts-at-you fun) is really the

> simplest and most secure setup.

> 

If you're not real concerned about any particular packages, cygwin

is really easy to update, just as easy as microsloth, just a few

clicks, but yeah, good point. There are probably much better ways

to do it. I just threw it in the mix as a point of interest. OTOH,

I haven't had any network breakage from the adapter, but I'm sure

it can happen. Luckily for me & the few computers on this network,

it works really well so far. I haven't had any breakage or problems

since I uninstalled the m$ tools for unix off the one box. 
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Denny White
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