From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 14 14:14:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tethys.valhalla.net (tethys.valhalla.net [195.26.32.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060BC37B43E for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@tethys.valhalla.net) Received: by tethys.valhalla.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 32EBD33009; Mon, 14 May 2001 22:14:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:14:23 +0100 From: Mark Drayton To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mounts / su / yp Message-ID: <20010514221423.B1187@tethys.valhalla.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010514220227.A1187@tethys.valhalla.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fhouston@east.isi.edu on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:07:32PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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