From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 20 16:45:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA16500 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA16491 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA21254; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:38:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708202338.QAA21254@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: smbfs To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:38:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199708190659.BAA27054@compound.east.sun.com> from "Tony Kimball" at Aug 19, 97 01:59:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Has anyone done work on smbfs for FreeBSD? Yes, off an on. See the -hackers and -current list archives for "SMBFS". Pay special attention to the security model problems between "per request credentials" vs. "per connection credentials" with regard to multiuser systems. CIFS resolves some of this by supporting "per request credentials" via Kerberos tickets. The LanMan protocols prior to CIFS had serious issues which could only be addressed through a much more complex session management facility (which no one but Novell has written yet). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.