From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 12:13:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA22243 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:13:41 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22237 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:13:39 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA04080; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:09:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199509131909.MAA04080@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Charles Owens cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Subject: Re: smfs In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:55:16 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:09:43 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Curious , could a kerberos like authentication help with the smbs authentication problem? Tnks, Amancio >>> Charles Owens said: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >