Encryping samba traffic

Hello. I have a small home network with a linux file server and a
windoze 2000 workstation. All file sharing is done with samba. Is it
possible to encrypt all samba traffic on the network? (I mean not just
protocol stuff but everything, files etc.)

Hmm, is their some kind of network driver that can encrypt all packets
on all ports going between two specific computers?

Thanks,
Erik

Marin <(E-Mail Removed)> asked:
> Hello. I have a small home network with a linux file server and a
> windoze 2000 workstation. All file sharing is done with samba. Is it
> possible to encrypt all samba traffic on the network? (I mean not just
> protocol stuff but everything, files etc.)

As far as I know, it's not possible to encrypt SMB/CIFS (samba).

> Hmm, is their some kind of network driver that can encrypt all packets
> on all ports going between two specific computers?

Yes. It's called a VPN. My current favourite is OpenVPN as it's dead
easy to configure and equally easy to use.

Chris

(E-Mail Removed) (Marin) wrote news:ee1d9799.0405280408.3d562e87
@posting.google.com:
> Hello. I have a small home network with a linux file server and a
> windoze 2000 workstation. All file sharing is done with samba. Is it
> possible to encrypt all samba traffic on the network? (I mean not just
> protocol stuff but everything, files etc.)
>
> Hmm, is their some kind of network driver that can encrypt all packets
> on all ports going between two specific computers?

Have a look to

http://www.stunnel.org/about/

which is an ssl tunnel for samba

and

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...1-q4/0320.html

where it use ssh portforwarding capability.



Regard