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Hello!
The task is:
Two offices are situated far one from the other. In each office is samba server. How to give users from one office's network access to another server? It should be done like it's not another server in LAN, but just one more directory on their server. Which OS is more preferable for such task?
Thanks.
P.S.: I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm just learning...

Well, you could just mount a network share on startup. I think this would probably be the easiest way to do it. What are all of the OS's on the network, including the two servers?

It's some way called VPN that is possible to make a networks trought internet if computers are far away from other one. I don't have a practice about VPN but i know that it's possible to make.

are the two computers on the same network? (Same office building?)
If not VPN would work fine.

Both servers are Debian 3.1, clients - win98, winXP.
krod no, they aren't on the same network... Could you give me some links about VPN? I know what it is, but I've never worked with it.

What router do you have, and also what are all of the OS's on the computers in the 2 offices. With this info I can give you a definite link or how-to, but in the meantime try this.

http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/vpnsetup/

http://notebook.ifas.ufl.edu/vpn/VPNconfig.htm

http://www.homenethelp.com/vpn/router-config.asp

http://vpn.umc.edu/cgi-bin/index.pl

yeah vpn is what you'll need.

You'll also need good sized pipe to the intenet.

Best way is probably going to be to get a VPN appliance which will be able to do most of the work for you. cisco has them as well as many others.

not a trivial task but not too dificult. A lot of work has gone into creating just these sorts of networks.

gotta run i can explain more later.

nagual Router - Freesco 0.3.4, on both servers Debian 3.1, clients - winXP, win98.
By the way, does Debian support SATA drives, or it is better to install it on an IDE-HDD?
And can you give me some NFS HOWTOs? Sorry, but I really can't find any...

nyX` wrote:nagual Router - Freesco 0.3.4, on both servers Debian 3.1, clients - winXP, win98.
By the way, does Debian support SATA drives, or it is better to install it on an IDE-HDD?
And can you give me some NFS HOWTOs? Sorry, but I really can't find any...

SATA support is Linux-specific, not distribution-specific. And Linux does support it. The easiest (though not most efficient) solution is NFS with VPN. You'll want to have a look at the NFS HOWTO and the VPN HOWTO.

It depends on how mutch the server HD's are running.
But in this case i would go for SCSI