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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:
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tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:FF:C6:22:5W:6B
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On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 02:03, Derek Martin wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 04:13:14PM -0400, Thomas Lopolito wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> I've successfully installed and started tinc. (at least according to the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> syslog) </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Now that I have established a secure tunnel how do I access the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> individual files on the system I've connected to? The tinc documentation</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> is great on setting it up but nothing on acessing the individual files.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Is there a GUI application?</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>You don't say much about what you're trying to do, so I'll generalize:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>A tunnel is like a network cable that connects you to the rest of the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>network on the other side of the tunnel... Once it's connected, you</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>just do whatever you would do if you were on the other side of it.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Your PC becomes a member of the remote network. So for example, if</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>you use NFS to access files on some server on the other end of the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>tunnel, you'd configure NFS on the local side of the tunnel just as if</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>it were on the network on the remote end of the tunnel. Because it</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>is.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Note however, that even with a broadband connection, file sharing via</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>NFS or SMB or whatever tends to be pretty darned slow -- on the order</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>of 1/100 the speed of accessing local disk. Usually you'd want to do</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>this only out of desperation...</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>VPNs are great for things like accessing mail or company web sites.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>These are usually fairly small data transfers which aren't intolerable</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>at dial-up speeds, and (usually) pretty quick over broadband (it's</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>just like downloading your mail from your ISP). Broadband is even</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>fine for running remote X displays (there are tricks to make this</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>bearable on dial-up, too). </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>HTH</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-- </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#73092f"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Derek D. Martin</FONT></FONT></I>
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