On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:39 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Not really, I was more concerned about passwords. For some reason, I > assume them to be transimitted as clear text, correct me if I am > wrong. More importantly, how safe is samba on an untrusted LAN? They're only transmitted that way if you want them to be. Samba is under your control. Define untrusted... Family with no technical knowledge, LAN with a person you expect to cause you problems, LAN with people you don't know on it, etc. You can share things as read-only over Samba if you want to, and there's various ways to restrict who can access what. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
