From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 14:42:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14074 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13744 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11463; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:40:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA18562; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:54:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809211654.RAA18562@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Lanny Baron cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: samba and wan In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 02:00:49 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:54:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should read through the smb.conf man page and any READMEs you find the source dist. The answer is ``yes but....''. Basically, you need to configure each network to push the browse lists to the next one. If you don't want to do this, you can still get things to work without the network neighbourhood browsing by creating DNS aliases on the local network that point to the real machines - so if a.b.c wants to connect to a share on d.e.f, you need a d.b.c CNAME that points to d.e.f. > Hello, > > Does samba allow a windows user from anywhere on the internet to > connect to a unix server? And if so, is this done or shown (by computer > name) in Network Neiborhood? I have installed it here and can see my unix > (FreeBSD) box via network Neiborhood. It is rather good for ppl who dont > have time or the inclination to learn unix. But I want to know if someone > in England or Australia could use their windows box to see my FreeBSD box > and use it. > > If the above is possible I can see some good benefits to the > industry I am in. And please dont tell me "good morning" ... The world of > unix seems to be larger than the universe itself. > > Thank you for your help, > > Lanny -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message