[PLUG] Samba question

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I did come across this article that describes doing encrypted NFS using 
OpenSSH. I've never had the need to use something like this but here's 
the URL to the article:

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=4072/sam0203d/sam0203d.htm

Tony

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 10:10 am, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Scott VanHoosen wrote:
> > How do NFS and Samba compare for security, speed, etc?
>
> There are a ton of issues involved in this issue. Here are but a few:
>
> NFS
> - uses basic Unix "user, group, world" file-permission model
> - exports to hosts, not users
> - uids/gids can be shared via NIS or distributed passwd file
> - no widespread standard concerning ACLs
> - RPC-based, so difficult to tunnel except via omnibus VPN solutions
>
>
> SMB/CIFS
> - can be tunnelled reliably via ssh
> - authentication is user- not host-based, but isn't tied as tightly
>   into standard Unix auth data sources (NIS, passwd, ...); often, SMB
>   auth is handled by a Windows domain controller or a secondary
>   password map
> - ordinarily, permissions look "odd" from normal Unix shell commands,
>   but can be made to work with NT-style ACLs if sufficiently tweaked
>
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
>
>
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Anthony Schlemmer
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