From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 14 14: 7:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from east.isi.edu (east.isi.edu [38.245.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41EE337B42C for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fhouston@east.isi.edu) Received: from rosencrantz.east.isi.edu (rosencrantz.east.isi.edu [38.245.76.213]) by east.isi.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA11574 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 17:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:07:32 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Forrest Houston To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs mounts / su / yp In-Reply-To: <20010514220227.A1187@tethys.valhalla.net> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: fhouston@ale.east.isi.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maybe it's a misperception on my part, but I thought samba was mainly for *nix to win* file sharing. Can you do *nix to *nix? Looking through the distribution I have I see a smbclient but that says it's more like an ftp program than anything else. Personally I don't really see that as a workable solution if I'm "downloading" files all the time between the server and the local machine. Did I overlook something? Forrest On Mon, 14 May 2001, Mark Drayton wrote: > Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) wrote: > > Matt Piechota wrote: > > > While the idea isn't bad, SMB has enough flaws that I wouldn't use > > > it. > > > > I wasn't aware of that. Flaws in the implementation or in the design? > > I thought samba was pretty well written, but I guess this is compared > > to their Windows counterpart. ;) > > SMB != Samba. Samba is just a UNIX implementation of the SMB (session > message block) protocol. Samba is very well written (in fact MS use one > of the Samba stress testing programs to test their own code) but the > actual SMB protocol itself is reputed to be evil. I've never looked at > it in any depth so I can't say. > > Cheers, > > -- > > Mark Drayton > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message