I'd like to help my users tunnel from their remote windows PC to our samba server using the method described in the Tunneling entry at http://www.security-hacks.com/2007/05/18/ but the number of steps to create a loopback adaptor is quite lengthy and I doubt many of my users would make it through the whole procedure. I wrote out the step-by-step GUI instructions at http://www.nber.org/help/localhelp/tunnel.html I have a feeling that a couple of lines of wmic commands could do the same thing, and be packaged up in a .bat file for the user to execute, but I am unfamiliar with wmi and the wmic documentation doesn't seem to cover this. I can handle the appropriate command line for the Putty part. What I need is a loopback adaptor with an IP address of 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 with netbios and DNS registration turned off. In the GUI this turns out to be about 25 separate steps, and there are slight differences depending on which version of Windows you have. Thanks for any help. Daniel Feenberg feenberg isat nber dotte org
