I have a small lan running behind a broadband router which acts as a firewall. I have a linux box (suse 8.2) which I use as an apache/php/mysql server. On the linux box is a personal website containing a very large photo album - I would like to have samba running to speed up the process of transfering files (photos) from a (ehhhh) win2k machine to the SuSE server. How much of a security threat would I be opening myself up to if I enabled Samba. My router blocks traffic, except port 80.
Would it be safer / better to use a FTP server instead?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Much depends on whether how you want to transfer. With Samba (and SMBFS) you can mount a Windows share on the Linux box and export a Linux
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:23:31 +0200 "Dan Eskildsen" <netops@tdcadsl.dk> wrote: directory as a share. IMHO, opening up an ftp server is probably more of a security threat than Samba, especially since your router is blocking all ports other than 80. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9