Good morning people! I have apache running on a linux-machine. Now the guy who cares about the www-sites doesn´t want to log into the linux-machine to update the sites (let´s say with scp) but he wants just to copy the new files on a network device on his windows-machine on which he wants to mount the httpd-directories of the linux-machine then running samba. My question is: is it secure to let samba authenticate a user on the linux-machine (lets say a current user "webmaster" who only owns the needed directories)? Does the option "encrypt passwords=yes" provide an acceptable level of security (this last question is may be OT?)? Between the www-guy´s machine and the linux-machine are two or three routers, the whole network is about 150 machines big. All this other machines must be considered untrusted. Any of the files exported by samba are public, so no encryption of data is need. Any other suggestions concerning security in this case? Thanks a lot! Anibal