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Hey all, I am not very IT savvy, so I was hoping to get the GDNet braintrust to help me out with a problem. I have an old laptop lying around that I wanted to basically use as a machine for distributed computing, nightly cron jobs (source builds, data downloading, parsing, et cetera), as well as act as an on demand access hard-drive. The first two items on my list aren't too hard for me to accomplish (ssh and ruby take care of it) -- but what is a bit more difficult is the second one. I am installing a fresh build of OpenBSD on the system and am wondering how I can set it up to be an accessible drive from any remote windows or mac box (as in, I can mount the foreign laptops drive from anywhere). Currently, the laptop is sitting in my home network, so I was thinking about basically trying to set up some sort of VPN and then just making sure my firewall has the appropriate ports open. Am I looking in the right direction? What sort of issues do I have to worry about (static IP, etc)? Has anyone ever done anything like this? Thanks
