-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 June 2003 05:23, Dan Eskildsen wrote:
HI everyone.
I want to hear your opinions as to the security of having samba running on my linux box.
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.
Regards from Denmark.
Dan Eskildsen
Either can be secure, if you follow the correct guidelines. You should be able to find various documentation on both across the internet. Both can be used through the PAM( Pluggable Authentication Modules) services. There is a module for both SMB, and FTP. I'd definitly give these a try. - -- Thomas Jones Linux-Howtos Network Administrator OpenGPG Key: 0x6A3DF6E9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+6yx4QT2komo99ukRAri6AJ0bsqDe7xpTXmjbqZjgefpEYv/zgwCfTcRt Ow6GrdPwN4ZHV2Y04t6RvnQ= =gmms -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----