On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Silver Salonen
<silver.salonen AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
>>> Using VPN would be a must anyway and my first thought on that was that
>>> if nmblookup would work over VPN, it would be enough. Needs more
>>> research and testing though :)
>> 1. Don't trust BackupPC to work with nmblookup. While theoretically it
>> works, It's a lot easier if you have DNS entries (maybe go with dynamic
>> DNS).
>> 2. I've always had awful luck getting nmb to work over a VPN. Theoretically
>> that's what WINS is for; but like all Microsoft products, it tends to break
>> unexpectedly and randomly.
>
> At first glance it seemed that nmblookup is a must. But if not, then
> DDNS is even better :)

If you use openvpn you can give each client a private IP that the
server can reach any time the vpn is connected - and the clients can
be behind NAT as long as the server has a public IP.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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