Re: Samba and IPSec?

[Jan Johansson <janj@wenf.org>]

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> 
> Greetings.  This just in from our Burning Down A House To Kill A Gnat
> department:
> 
> The Powers That Be want to give our (outsourced) accountants access to
> one file on our internal network.  These accountants will be using
> Windoze boxes over dialup connections to their own ISP, and AFAIK
> there's nothing we can do about that.  There is also some belief that
> these people are incapable of understanding any form of network file
> transfer other than drive sharing.  Sigh.
> 
> Naturally we don't want our accounting info to float naked over the
> wire, so I thought about giving the accountants IPSec clients which
> would talk to our OpenBSD firewall, and running Samba on our
> fileserver.  But I have heard that CFS has (serious) trouble talking
> over masqueraded connections, and I'm wondering if this extends to IPSec
> networks.
> 
> Can somebody tell me whether or not my scheme can be made to work?
> 

How about making a batch file that uses pscp[1] and landing the file on
say their desktop? Seems like alot of trouble with IPsec for one file.

[1] http://www.centus.com/putty/ - This is the mirror I remember in my
head.