I want to install SAMBA server on SUSE and i am wondering if this SAMBA server can be accessed from anywhere (not by ips of the same network segment)

Thanks in advance

Hi,

the way I understand our question, this is not samba spezific.
Samba (on linux) is a service (daemon) wich connect to a server socket 139 (and 137 if I'm not mistaking)

If other user can connect to this socket is dependand on your networklayout, router / gateway and firewall settings.

There is an option to configur samba to bind to a spezific (network) interface, or ip addrress only,
this can be used to let samba be accessed over certain network segments only if the server is configured with multiple interfaces.

For more info you need to state what you have in mind with your setup :-)


Have Fun

I am intenting to install samba (or webdav).
Which is better?

OK, hhm the otherway around:

What do you intend to accomplish with your setup.. (sorry, still no questionmark on my keyboard)

It looks like you want multiple users access files simultaniously.

With samba this is very easy to do,
but a bit more difficult to do if you have fancy groups permisions and the like.

Webdav is a HTTP-extension (apache module, or IIS),
a bit more complicated to setup,
you get the picture....

If you really don't know if you should use webdav or samba,
I suggest you should read some on the documentation on both,
or give more details on _what_ you want to do.
(not:
"I want samba, how does it work.."
but more like:
"I have a group of 20 users in 3 departments, they need read / write access to some
300 file, in 10 directories. One department must have readonly access, the other have rw,...
and the rest....")

Actually i am comparing these two services (HTTP-extention and Samba) and if there are widely available from anyone regardless of his IP.