Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:04:35 -0400 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup Message-ID: <E6F31F15-8954-11D8-A222-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>
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On Apr 2, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > Panna wrote: > > >> You see I'm in a state of confusion.. > > You're simply using a FreeBSD as a file server. You serve up > files to the client via NFS (OS X) or CIFS (Windows). FreeBSD doesn't > care. Now if you want FreeBSD to understand and manipulate those > files > is a different issue. > See, this is part of where I was getting a little munged up in trying to figure out how I want to aim for renetworking my home... I'm looking at using FreeBSD on a server (web, mail, file server) with OS X, Windows, and probably Linux clients. I'd like the FreeBSD server to handle authentication, but that may be a pipe dream to accomplish across platforms easily :-/ For the file serving I was looking at NFS (especially using the NFS server with Services for Unix under Windows), but the common cross-platform version may too insecure to use comfortably, especially with wireless (most of my wireless connections are wrapped in ssh if they're important anyway). That would leave SMB/CIFS, meaning SAMBA, but I haven't found anyone able to tell me if CIFS is secure "over the wire". I seem to recall a utility that would sniff network packets and if NFS is used, it can capture the files as they're travelling over the network; can this happen with CIFS? I would really rather NOT use mixed protocols to share; NFS for Linux/OS X, CIFS for Windows...then I'd have increased overhead to managing permissions, etc... Advice?
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