Ranga Nathan wrote:
Subject Re: Using SAMBA / NFS for data interchange between Windows and Linux - any reservations? Sorry, not answering your question ... but appending my own to it ... We do lots of ftps as well and using NFS/SAMBA sounds like an interesting alternative. However, we just went through an audit and one of the requirements that came out of that is that all transfers have to be encrypted. All our transfers are inside the company, within our intranet. So we're using ftp with TLS/SSL encryption. Does SAMBA/NFS encrypt data?
Does Windows? I suppose you could "encourage" either by use of ssh and port forwarding, but note ssh doesn't forward udp.
If we want external customers plug into it, the we give them a VPN tunnel. The can see their folders and drop off / pickup. z/OS does SMB too. Although I do not have a say in that area, that would be a neat solution.
No reason I know you can't run a VPN internally too. The Powers That Be will have to choose between security and CPU usage:-) webdav might be an alternative: I've not explored its use, but I expect it will work over https. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
