On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:24:15 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said: > The ability of a user on a client with root access being able to gain > access to other users' files on an NFS server seemed like a fundamental > problem when I was making this same decision. With SMB you have got much > better security.
Such a user only has access to other files if the exported filesystem is mounted no_root_squash (which isn't the default). I do agree that security and access control can be managed far better with CIFS *if* it is set up correctly, which - in my experience - it seldom is. Non-scientific tests that I've done also show that CIFS is significantly faster than NFSv3. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
