Best non-VPN Solution for remote access to SAMBA Shares? [closed]

If you want to even be able to say the word 'secure' in connection with this implementation and not blush, I'd think you'd have to run the connections over a proper VPN.

SSH Port forwarding.

Putty provides a nifty interface and distribution could be done with some ini files. The problem would be that

• you have to forward a couple of ports (ok not that much of a problem)
• Connections to the SMB share would look like coming from localhost (being the SMB server itself)

Of course that would also be just some kind of VPN.

I would think having a VPN solution such as OpenVPN might the best, but maybe that is overkill for this one task.