Share folder over internet

[Michael K. Smith - Adhost]

Hello Laszlo:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Laszlo Nagy
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:37 PM
> To: Derek Ragona; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Share folder over internet
> 
> 
> > You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices.  You
> can
> > do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would
be
> > to have static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware
> > support for VPNs at each office.  You can connect the two offices
via
> > a VPN connection from router to router.
> Well, we do not have static IP addresses, and the routers does not
> support VPN. Also I do not like the idea of VPN because I feel that
> would forward more packets than needed. I may be wrong. :-)
> 
> Although we do not have static IP, we have DDNS. Is it possible to do
> VPN from one FreeBSD box to another and then.... what? Mount nfs?
Mount
> smb? I can mount a remote smb volume then share it with another smb
> server, but it looks wreid to me and I'm also concerned about speed. I
> believe smb is not optimized for speed. If I have to use VPN then I
> would like to use the most traffic-efficient method over VPN. Can you
> suggest something?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
Have you considered NFS over IPSec? See:

http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/nfs_via_ipsec_tunnel.html

Regards,

Mike