Re: Samba vs NFS

From: Ryan Nowakowski (tubaman_at_fattuba.com)
Date: 02/22/05

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    Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:25:08 -0600
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

    On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:42:36PM -0500, Jennifer Fountain wrote:
    > Hi all:
    > My company is looking at samba or NFS to allow our clients to access
    > shares from their Windows workstations and their linux ssh sessions.
    > >From a security standpoint, which option is "more" secure? Which option
    > is more vulnerable than the other? Etc, etc ,etc. I appeciate any
    > security information about NFS or samba that you may have.

    You might want to look into OpenAFS[1]. I've heard some good things about
    it recently.

    1. http://www.openafs.org

    - Ryan

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