ssh as replacement for PPTP?

From: James Van't Slot (jj@nowhere.com)
Date: 02/23/03 

From: James Van't Slot <jj@nowhere.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:20:05 GMT

Please excuse me if this is a rather dumb question...

I'm looking for a low cost/no cost alternative to the PPTP VPN stuff
that Windows uses. I don't want to use PPTP because I've heard so
many stories of how it is insecure and I haven't seen any
improvements to it from MS. I've got a smoothwall firewall and a
SAMBA server on the inside of the network. I have a VPN already
setup between two offices using the built in SWAN VPN stuff on the
Smoothwall box. That works great. However, I want to be able to
allow access to the SAMBA services from people with Win98 and XP
laptops with dialup accounts on the road. Currently the Smoothwall
(1.0) version does not support dynamic IP addresses for the VPN. You
have to buy their Corporate server package and a few addon modules.
This is fine for a medium sized company but not for my small (tiny)
company.

I'm wondering if there is a way to use PuTTY to tunnel the SMB
protocol through the Firewall. I've looked high and low for help on
this but haven't found any. I'm just wondering if anyone has done
this and how they did it? Also I don't want to require folks on the
inside of the network to have to run ssh every time they connect to
the SAMBA server. So I'm wondering if there is a way to forward ssh
to another port on the SAMBA server while still leaving the default
SMB port un-disturbed for in-house use and just have remote access
use SSH?

If anyone could point me in the right direction for documentation on
pulling something like this off, or point me to viable alternatives,
or just straighten me out on the subject, I sure would appreciate it!

james

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