Secure Internet Access To Samba With SSH And PuTTY
Posted in Tech stuff on November 13th, 2009 by Martin Schapendonk – Be the first to comment
This post is for people running a private Samba server, wishing it was securely accessible over the Internet. Stop reading if you don’t know what Samba or SSH means.
Imagine the following situation: at work, school or a client site, you insert your USB stick, check your local hard drive and search your Gmail account to find out that the one file you were looking for is not there. You probably left it at home. Damn!
Sounds familiar? It does happen to me frequently.
A solution is to have access over the Internet to your private Samba server. No more worrying that you didn’t take a particular file with you, just access it from anywhere you like. But you also want that access to be secure. Can it be done? Yes.
What do you need?
- A server running Samba that also provides SSH access from the internet
- Windows XP on the client
- PuTTY on the client
