On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 14:44, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:17, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > How can I do the tunneling? Any suggestions? IPSEC? SSH? etc? I'm new in > > this. > > > > SSH would be easy to try. It can be configured for compression so might > give you some improvement in throughput. > > I have had success using ssh with compression for vnc and x-windows > connections across the Internet. It did improve the response times for > me. > > > That's not largely a problem. The problem here is that I won't be able > > to get a _real_time_ copy of the data. (unless I set up rsync like every > > minute or so.. but the stress on the server and my notebook!) > > > > Thanks guys. I guess there's nothing much that can be done. It's not > > only Samba shares, even accessing windows shares are a _real_pain_ > > -- > > Maybe we need to step back from the problem a little. Would nfs do the > trick? I have not used nfs much but I think the overhead is less than > samba. I take it one end point is a Windows box? You might check out > cygwin. It has a lot of unix type tools available. Both are Linux Boxes. I've tried Both NFS and SMB. Both Sucks. NFS sucks even more than SMB. For some reason.
