On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Richard Ibbotson wrote: ->Pete -> ->> Hmmmm I was thinking more like NFS, although I recollect a thread ->> on this very subject -I must check -> ->Umm ... what you ought to do with Linux and Unix in general as Jeremy ->Allison says ... is that you shouldn't trust your applications or ->clients. If you want to use Samba over the net the more usual thing ->is SSL. Which I should have mentioned. NFS is the kind of thing ->that I might expect a Windoze person to use. Ummm... excuse me, but what planet are you from? NFS from a Windows person? NFS is perfectly suitable for a LAN application on UNIX platforms. Yes, SSL is more secure, but exactly how are you proposing to use SSL in a file server application? Using FreeSWAN would be fine for protection, but you still need the file sharing protocol. - Herman