On October 4, 2005 13:17, Simon Stephens wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 18:53, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: ... > > Unless you absolutely need it (e.g. have to connect to a Solaris box that > > doesn't run samba), disable every service that mentions NFS, because NFS > > has designed-in (i.e. unfixable) security holes big enough to drive a > > transport truck through, not to mention being unreliable (their own > > documentation says to not send any file bigger than 10MB via NFS, as it > > may be corrupted in transit!). Basically it's an obsolete, broken, piece > > of garbage. It shouldn't even be installed. > > What should we newbies with network problems do? Uninstall NFS entirely and > use Samba for Linux only computers? > > Simon
That's an excellent question. Unfortunately, my knowledge in this area is somewhat sparse. I'm mainly passing on wisdom received from more experienced sys admins. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can jump in here. Perhaps if your on a sufficiently secure LAN (well firewalled from the internet, or not connected to it at all), the holes in NFS don't matter. I have used NFS in the past, and it is convenient for file sharing (though you have to watch for deadlock on a system wide reboot with cross-mounted drives, such as after a power failure). But that was before businesses were allowed on the internet, so the risk wasn't that serious. There were no other file sharing options then that I know of anyway. I use ssh and scp now. That suffices for my small network, but may not meet other people's needs. There's also sftp, which I've used at work. But this really gives you file transfer, as opposed to file sharing. I haven't used samba myself, but I believe it can be set up for file sharing between linux systems, without Windoze being involved. There may be other options I'm not aware of either. Knowing the linux community, there are probably several. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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