Samba security or is ftp better?

14 Jun 2003

      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