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Re: SMB over internet, password secure?


On 14 Jun 2005, at 18:18, Hawker, Daniel wrote:

quick one as ever. I know that AFP is reasonably secure when
it comes to sending passwords.

Is SMB secure enough for external connections?

Thanks.


In a word, no. Of course that admittedly depends upon your definition of
secure :)

This is also not the *done thing*, as a rule, and often won't work
anyway, as often ISPs will block SMB traffic.

You're best bet would probably be to setup a VPN tunnel to encapsulate
the SMB traffic.

That will also be *much* more secure.


that can be now done also for AFP, as long as one choses a different port to listen on the local host, or the connection will fail as it appears to be targeted at the local machine.
For instance "ssh remote.server -L 549:127.0.0.1:548" will work fine with afp://remote.server:549

Giuliano
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