Hi, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:
first I think this thread should be on a samba tech list instead.
I am very sorry if my question was OT. I asked about security issues when using samba, which is shipped with the SuSE distribution and is discused in the SuSE documentation. Is there a samba-security list?
IIRC win98/2K/ME and 95 and NT beginning with a servicepack will transport the passwords encrypted.
Yes, that´s right. But I asked about samba...
I do not know what filesharing systems was to be treated as secure in an untrusted environment. There are more than oprion: Coda, NFS, NW, and others that have (free)Win clients. Why don´t you use a standard FTP connection?
Because the www-guy wants a windows network device! Thanks for your answer, Anibal