On 20 Mar 2005, at 17:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 20 March 2005 07:24, Craig White wrote:
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Your comment about being 'MS Free' strikes me as rather anti-Microsoft motivated. I see Macintosh users that won't give up Microsoft Office despite their virulent anti-Microsoft charges. I've seen people on this list like Gene who claims never to have owned a Windows computer - but uses samba for networking at his house.
Mainly because the alternative everyone wants me to try, cannot be made to work, NFS. Any and all attempts to setup an NFS share have been met with a 'no permission' response from the server, this box, even though I am running as root for 99% of what I do. I come back to the list with exact copies of the files you request, and everyone goes away shaking their head because they don't have an answer as to why I cannot make it work here. Its supposed to Just Work(TM), but it doesn't. With all due respect, samba works for everything but level sensitive backups, and amanda or rsync steps up to the plate and makes a home run everytime.
NFSv3 is considered insecure and lacks proper authentication (it only support IP-based access control which is weak), and relies on using an homogeneous UID mappings across clients and servers.
I use Samba which uses per-share authentication. I don't like it as much as NFSv4, but it's a little bit more secure than NFSv3.
