On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:31:34AM +0200, Kurt Tunkko wrote: > Questions > ========= > 1) Regarding security: How does samba compares to rsyncd?
The authentication might be better, but AFAIK, packet contents are not encrypted. Looking at the docs of smb.conf, there seems to support for packet encryption and signing (see the "smb encrypt" option). You could test by configuring a client to enforce encryption and see whether you can still connect via smbclient. smbclient also supports a "-e" option to enforce encryption, might be non-trivial to set up. You will get a performance penalty here because packet sizes will be smaller. > 2) If I choose a password that is long and complicates enough, I should > be safe regarding brut-force attacks? Security is always a tradeoff. What attackers are you expecting? How valuable is the data? How many people might get access to it? How difficult is it to sniff your network? > Transfer via rsyncd will still be unencrypted :-/ > > 3) If I tunnel rsyncd over SSH, will I get the low transfer rates like > rsync+ssh on windows clients? I don't know. > 4) Is someone using rsync over SSH (Cygwin based) and get the same > transfer speeds like rsyncd? Or will encryption always come with the > cost of (much) lower transfer speeds? Encryption should not slow down too much - modern processors are fast enough, so the disk is still the bottleneck. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
