On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 13:01, Zane C.B. wrote: > > > > The problem is that I still can't understand when do I need to use > > SAMBA and NFS? > > SMB, what Samba does, allows you to export stuff to a single user. > Under SMB a user that a share is mounted as is the user access is going > to occur as. Use this one in a unsecure enviroment or in one where > windows are clients. That's a single user per connection. You aren't really limited to a single user. > NFS allows you to export stuff for multiple users. You mount it and > then who ever have proper permissions on the access stuff can access > it. Use this one only in a secure enviroment. Note in particular that anyone who has root access on a client (or can boot a knoppix CD) can pretend to be anyone else in regard to the NFS server file permissions. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
