From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 12:50: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 12:50:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E678837B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 12:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 86575 invoked by uid 100); 22 Dec 2000 20:49:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14915.48757.940077.577150@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:49:57 -0600 (CST) To: Mark Rowlands Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing disks between Win32 and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <119220734@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Rowlands types: > On Thursday 21 December 2000 19:51, Stuart Morse wrote: > > Hi All, > > I will be developing a Java servlet application that will run under > > FreeBSD, and I would like to use Borland JBuilder to achieve this. > > We own a Win32 version of JBuilder, so the programming itself will > > occur on a Win32 PC. It would be nice to be able to generate my object > > code directly to the FreeBSD machine using a shared disk. Does > > FreeBSD support NETBUI, or should I use NFS? What are some of the > > pros and cons? > > > samba ....is an smb (cifs) server for unix) > pros free and it works > cons none that I am aware of > NFS > You will need to run a client on your pc > pros none that I am aware of > cons You will need to run a client on your pc The security implications make me prefer NFS: SMB clients are provided with every Windows box, so every script kiddie has the software to access your server if they get through your security. Also, many smb servers are vulnerable to being sent OOB data, which crashed every release of Win95 I tested it on, as well as samba running on non-protected OS's (though the versions I checked were of the ~96/97 vintage). NFS is also notoriously insecure, but the script kiddies have to get it from somewhere other than a windows install disk. Recent versions will run over TCP to provide better security, but I haven't investigated why/how. I recommend not running either one where someone you don't trust can get to your wire. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message