From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 14:05:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8513316A4B3 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from station189.com (station189.com [203.194.198.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B9E143F93 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rtjohan@syspres.com) Received: (qmail 18544 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2003 21:06:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO syspres.com) (12.210.21.239) by station189.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 2003 21:06:05 -0000 Message-ID: <3F887024.3070306@syspres.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:03:32 -0700 From: rtjohan@syspres.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <003001c39038$9287af80$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <003001c39038$9287af80$04fea8c0@moe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Fileserver: Samba or NFS or ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:05:21 -0000 Hi all, For backing up WinXP machines to a FreeBSD 5.1 fileserver, what are the pros and cons of going with Samba vs NFS? The fileserver is being updated regularly using cvsup/portupgrade -ra. BTW - is a make world ever necessary for security patches. Especially concerned regarding security. Can either one be locked done well? Seems like both have had security problems in the past. Are these issues resolved at this point? Is there maybe a better alternative? Especially interested in if Samba or NFS can be paired with some encryption transport protocol. Thanks for any advice, Richard