tinc

[invalid at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 04:13:14PM -0400, Thomas Lopolito wrote:
> I've successfully installed and started tinc. (at least according to the
> syslog) 
> Now that I have established a secure tunnel how do I access the
> individual files on the system I've connected to? The tinc documentation
> is great on setting it up but nothing on acessing the individual files.
> Is there a GUI application?

You don't say much about what you're trying to do, so I'll generalize:

A tunnel is like a network cable that connects you to the rest of the
network on the other side of the tunnel...  Once it's connected, you
just do whatever you would do if you were on the other side of it.
Your PC becomes a member of the remote network.  So for example, if
you use NFS to access files on some server on the other end of the
tunnel, you'd configure NFS on the local side of the tunnel just as if
it were on the network on the remote end of the tunnel.  Because it
is.

Note however, that even with a broadband connection, file sharing via
NFS or SMB or whatever tends to be pretty darned slow -- on the order
of 1/100 the speed of accessing local disk.  Usually you'd want to do
this only out of desperation...

VPNs are great for things like accessing mail or company web sites.
These are usually fairly small data transfers which aren't intolerable
at dial-up speeds, and (usually) pretty quick over broadband (it's
just like downloading your mail from your ISP).  Broadband is even
fine for running remote X displays (there are tricks to make this
bearable on dial-up, too).  

HTH

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