From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 06:59:37 2004 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 BB77316A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 06:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from destiny.chrononomicon.com (mail.chrononomicon.com [65.193.73.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F33E43D49 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 06:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (destiny.chrononomicon.com [192.168.1.42]) by destiny.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA371FE24 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:04:35 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:04:35 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup 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: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:59:37 -0000 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?