tinc

[thomas at lopolito.com (Thomas Lopolito)]

I agree on all your points. My question is how to identify, on the
network, the remote point in order to mount it? It may be that my
configuration is the issue that is causing my angst. To test to see if
it I could get tinc up and running I have connected 2 boxes within a 10.
address, so I'm not on the outside looking in, but inside  looking in.
But I would still expect to "see" the connection somehow in order to use
mount or NFS or samba; which I don't. Using ifconfig -a shows tap0 with
a hardware address in the manner:
 tap0  Link encap:Ethernet   HWaddr 00:FF:C6:22:5W:6B

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 02:03, Derek Martin wrote:

    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
    
    -- 
    Derek D. Martin
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