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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!stress.noc.demon.net!hdm From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: smbfs under FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:00:28 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Message-ID: <slrn5r73pq.cjm.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> References: <33AFCEA5.167EB0E7@IBC.IskraSistemi.Si> <01bc82a8$ed23e340$b4cc93cf@thewall> Reply-To: hdm@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net [195.11.55.5] X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43648 Earlier, J.C. Archambeau <n-xiv@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > It doesn't exist and my impression from a previous thread on this subject > is that even if someone does write it, it may not become part of the > official distribution. Why? Security (or severe lack thereof). Because > of the design limitations of SMBFS, it will never be secure. Samba is > about as good as you'll get with any of the BSD projects. To expand with this, the problem is that it authenticates on a per user basis, which is no use at all in a multi-user environment... -Dom -- This posting is not an official communication of Demon Internet Ltd., unless otherwise stated. ---- Work: hdm@demon.net ---- Play: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk ---- *roff: don't fear the formatter.