Re: Samba and IPSec?

[Al Lipscomb <arl@q7.net>]

> > 
> pscp is putty scp. putty is a freeware ssh/telnet client. In short it
> lets a Windows machine talk scp protocol to a ssh server.
> 
> For the same stuff on OpenBSD "man scp".
> 
> The syntax would be something like
> 
> pscp user@somehost.com:/private/secret/accoutning_file.txt c:\download
> 
> and the file would be transfered with encryption all the way over ssh.
> 
> 
Home page is at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

putty (as in Windows Putty) is used to fill in the cracks around Windows :)

It is a first rate tool for any admin who has to deal with Windows clients
I have solved a number of problems using it for remote access.

One option would be to put up a Windows RAS server (running 2000) 
inside your firewall and allow the PPTP in. We use a dual NIC Windows 2000
server with the "outside" NIC in a DMZ and the inside NIC on the internal
network. PPTP version 2 is better than version 1 but it is nowhere as nice
as SSH or IPSEC. If the clients were running Windows 2000 I think they could
use l2tp.

You could also make the file accessable with a Windows IIS server set to 
allow only encrypted passwords if they only need read access to the file
then they could use their browser to fetch it across SSL.

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