And the irony is CIFS is quite secure if you tunnel it through SSH, but on any platform where you would have to use CIFS (read: on windows), you can never bind to the local port 445, and can't connect to cifs on any port other than 445.
I'd try those two web apps over apache+SSL. in the off chance your requirement of being 'web' is less to do with the user interface and more to do with firewalls, there are several methods of tunnelling arbitrary network traffic over http as valid (proxy and firewall compatible) http requests. See: http://freshmeat.net/projects/corkscrew/
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 13:54, Mark Gardner [email protected] wrote:
Is there a specific reason your uploading of files to your home server has to have anything to do with samba?
No, It does not have to do with Samba, any web based file browser will do.
If you could use a web site interface to uploading and managing files on a webserver, try http://webfilebrowser.sourceforge.net/ and http://freshmeat.net/projects/pfb/. Of course, you will probably want to set up ssl, and offer those services exclusively over SSL.
This is exactly the type of things that I've been looking for. Something that I can upload my files to, and secure down with Authentication/Encryption
If it doesn't even have to be 'web', use scp, an sftp client like filezilla, or fuse-sshfs.
I would prefer a web interface. But yes, I've used winscp, and other sftp clients
you could actually use Samba right over the net, but it is usually blocked, and isn't very smart for security reasons.
I agree 100% CIFS over open internet is just a bad idea.
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