Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.