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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount Netbeui volumes? Date: 11 May 1996 11:49:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4n1urr$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <postmaster-0905961001120001@206.65.200.5> <319404CD.33E93F68@lambert.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > Linux supports mounting remote shares as a file system as well > -- with system level security, which is a big, big security > hole. FreeBSD doesn't , not because it isn't possible, but > because of the security considerations. To be fair: And because nobody got round to implement it. However, the security considerations are to be taken serious. I could however think of a model where an SMB file system can be used to access all the services marked `public'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)