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Dominique Leuenberger schreef: > > The main problem in this scenario is the user: not knowing what the > message means, not knowing what danger it bears.. not caring at all.. > and voila: let's open that... and that and that too... We are all users... > I'm sure you know the saying: 'security always brings some unpleasant > sideeffects'. Of course, users coming from Windows got used to have a > complete system which they can't control but it appears to do what they > want... or let's say: it seems to do what you want (plus a bit more). > > I[m not sure if it's the right way to always compare what you can do in > Windows and what you can't do in Linux. Do we have to adopt all the > negative aspects from other platforms? No, but why not adopt the positive ones? > Do we really want to raise the > potential security just for having the silliest implementation ever > working? I do not see what is silly about a firewall? > Btw: what for do you need SMB Browsing anyway? The shares you'll ever > want to access are hopefully on a static IP; give the nodes a name (DNS) > and shares that have a talking name... and connect them directly... then > you just don't need SMB Browsing. If I knew how to exactly do that I would.. > Dominique Well, I understand what you are saying... I used windows for about a decade...but do not have a reason to use it, exept Warblade, a game converted from the old 'Amiga' days..... My 2 sons and wife still use it, i want them to be able to acces my music and movie DB, which are partialy on my old windows partitions..and samba allways worked allright...until 10.0. In my debian, i use linneighbourhood, which also works allways, and allright. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFzI4QX5/X5X6LpDgRAgH3AJ0f+4fyvkQMff0RgvZKq69GL0C4nwCcDwdA RMMOAw/wzj7MBNaoIT8ohHk= =tYxV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
