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Re: [SLE] Duelling SAMBAs - quick questions?
- From: Martin Deppe <Martin.Deppe@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:38:52 +0100
- Message-id: <41D9751C.3020904@xxxxxx>
James Knott wrote:
Well, and what is your problem using a firewall? As long as we have eval people on this planet (or at least on the internet) we will need firewalls, as long as we are connected to the internet, won't we? But as of my own experience this isn't a problem at all. The firewall software as well as all of Linux is getting better and better and about 90 per cent of my PC related problems have been shown up as of hardware, NOT software. I think this is rather great.
Yours
Martin
Jonathan Brooks wrote:
Am I right in thinking that the only time you'd really want to use
SAMBA is if you have to support windows boxes? Can CUPS share printers
round the network without SAMBA?
Yes.
Say you use NFS for networking - what are the issues for security of
data etc? As far as I know nothing is encrypted with NFS, so it's fairly
easy to spy on these machines, also aren't there well know exploits that
make use of holes in NFS?
The same applies to Samba. If you want encryption, use a VPN.
So I guess my question is: is there a relatively secure network file
system for use on a small network, that doesn't require that you put
all the computers behind a firewall?
Not that I'm aware of.
Well, and what is your problem using a firewall? As long as we have eval people on this planet (or at least on the internet) we will need firewalls, as long as we are connected to the internet, won't we? But as of my own experience this isn't a problem at all. The firewall software as well as all of Linux is getting better and better and about 90 per cent of my PC related problems have been shown up as of hardware, NOT software. I think this is rather great.
Yours
Martin
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