Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:14:23 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mounts / su / yp Message-ID: <20010514221423.B1187@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.10.10105141703120.-559341@rosencrantz.east.isi.edu>; from fhouston@east.isi.edu on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:07:32PM -0400 References: <20010514220227.A1187@tethys.valhalla.net> <Pine.WNT.4.10.10105141703120.-559341@rosencrantz.east.isi.edu>
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Forrest Houston (fhouston@east.isi.edu) wrote: > Maybe it's a misperception on my part, but I thought samba was mainly > for *nix to win* file sharing. Can you do *nix to *nix? Looking > through the distribution I have I see a smbclient but that says it's > more like an ftp program than anything else. Personally I don't > really see that as a workable solution if I'm "downloading" files all > the time between the server and the local machine. Samba is intended for windows <-> unix filesharing. However, this isn't to say unix <-> unix wouldn't work; I haven't tried it myself because it's a bit of a nutty idea. Obviously NFS/Coda/something is a better solution for this. smbclient does a lot more than basic ftp-style filesharing (it'll log you into a domain etc) but you're right in saying it is a bad way of doing things on a pure unix platform. Sorry to have gone off on a tangent... Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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