Hi! With *nix machines you can use a sshtunnel! http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=sshtunnel
Working for me in three vps servers flawessly! J. 2012/2/7 Christopher Geegan <cgee...@infosecur.biz>: > Forgive me if this has been asked and answered. > > I have a client (FD) behind NAT and I am look for ways to initiate backup > jobs from the server without port forwarding on the client side. > > I have read numerous articles of how to resolve issues with the server > (DIR/SD) being behind NAT but to me this is easy. I have even looked over the > "Dealing with Firewalls" section of the manual. In order for bacula to work > Dir must be able to contact FD to tell it to start the backup. Port > forwarding is not an option as we have numerous clients, Linux and Windows, > behind NAT and we cannot assign an external IP to each internal FD. To me > this means I have to have a site-to-site VPN tunnel or clients each running > OpenVPN for example. > > I am hoping somone can point me towards something I missed. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- _____________________________________________ Francisco Javier Funes Nieto [esen...@gmail.com] CANONIGOS Servicios Informáticos para PYMES. Cl. Cruz 2, 1º Oficina 7 Tlf: 958.536759 / 661134556 Fax: 958.521354 GRANADA - 18002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users