Pointing Hosted web to home server

[Joshua D. Abraham]

On 28.May.2007 10:23PM -0400, Kristian Hermansen wrote:

> On 5/28/07, Rusty Shackleford <rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >I am helping a few people setup the technical aspect of their small
> >business.  They cannot afford hosted shared storage at the moment and dont
> >have an office yet.  They put their website up on godaddy.com and they want
> >to be able to for a netshare or cifs(samba) to go to the web address and
> >have it pointed back to the server in one of their houses.  So before I 
> >came
> >abord they have a freenas server but they have multiple people connecting
> >and they dont want to have to change the ip on 5-10 computers everytime
> >comcast changes the ip, they want to maybe have a page that redirects it or
> >maybe a dns record that will point to it, does anyone have any expirience 
> >in
> >this?  I was thinking setting up an srv record but that does not seem to
> >work.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do, but most ISPs filter
> SAMBA/CIFS traffic (135-139/445)...

Why not just use scp/sftp as it is not filtered by the ISP and
also winscp is an easy interface if they wanta run windows.

gftp is a nice client for linux.

Jabra

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Joshua D. Abraham
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