From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 11:57:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA21509 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 11:57:49 -0700 Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA21503 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 11:57:47 -0700 Received: (from owensc@localhost) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.7.2 rev 08/22/95) id OAA12633; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:55:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:55:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Subject: Re: smfs In-Reply-To: <199509131737.KAA07708@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > You know that the smbfs "logs in" as a single client into an SMB server > (possibly smbd on another box) and thus has only a single credential > authenticated, that credential to be used by all UNIX users the kernel > funnels through the file system, right? Ugh... I was NOT aware that it was such an ugly beast. To be honest, I haven't dug very deeply into this. I've been pleased with the regular samba package, and I simply assumed that a kernal-based solution would be more effecient than it (memory-usage-wise). Apparently, though, smfs, is NOT a functional replacement for samba. I stand corrected. > If you go to implement this, at least think about the issues involved > before just blindly implementing. But of course! It's good to know we can all count on this list to rescue us from our blindness. :-) thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------