Security: NFS or Samba?

[Rob Blomquist]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:02, marcus wrote:
> In the Guarddog firewall program, it states NFS as high risk, and Samba
> as medium risk. Is this justified?
>
> I wanted to use NFS, but securing it seems to be a lot of work. I found
> a very good admin tutorial. I only need this for a home network.

I have a basic wireless router working as the firewall on my DSL connection. 
The router has no ports open for any special traffic, and I have no problems 
with security. Well, the ISP uses DHCP switchng IP addresses every 2 hours, 
and I bet that helps a good bit too.

As to NFS versus Samba, I use both, as NFS works great with Linux and Unix 
servers, and Samba helps with Window users. As long as you have security 
handled by a seperate box, I would say you are fine.

My network is a home network, and if you are talking about a corporate 
network, take these photons and toss them into /dev/null.

Rob

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Mountlake Terrace, WA