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Well this is mainly so that I can connect some of our development windows desktops to our production servers. Desktops and Servers are on two dif networks. So I need some way to encrypt the file sharing process other than ssh? I cant setup ipsec tunnels from every desktop to every server.
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Well this is mainly so that I can connect some of our development windows desktops to our production servers. Desktops and Servers are on two dif networks. So I need some way to encrypt the file sharing process other than ssh? I cant setup ipsec tunnels from every desktop to every server.

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Why you can't setup tunnel from every desktop to server? If this is domain environment you can use Group Policy to assign IPSec policy. You would need two OUs, one for desktop and one for servers and two GPO with different IPSec policy settings. <br />
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Are you concerned that traffic between desktops and servers can be intercepted?
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Why you can't setup tunnel from every desktop to server? If this is domain environment you can use Group Policy to assign IPSec policy. You would need two OUs, one for desktop and one for servers and two GPO with different IPSec policy settings.

Are you concerned that traffic between desktops and servers can be intercepted?

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Is it possible to encrypt CIFS. From what I've read CIFS uses 445, opposed to typical smb which uses 139 and some other standard ports. Is there anyway to encrypt this like ssh? I would like to be able to setup encrypted file sharing between desktops and servers.
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Is it possible to encrypt CIFS. From what I've read CIFS uses 445, opposed to typical smb which uses 139 and some other standard ports. Is there anyway to encrypt this like ssh? I would like to be able to setup encrypted file sharing between desktops and servers.

Is it possible to encrypt CIFS?

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