Linux Newsleters from me.

2003-03-17 Thread Sean Rima
Originally to: All I must say sorry to all the members of the Linux Newbies list for the off topic newsletters that arrived on the list from my system. I run a BBS and gate the list so that Fidonet newbies to Linux have access to the list. As a secondary aid, I also placed the newsletters in th

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 17 March 2003 20:11, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > Copy files from Server to Client 402 MB > (avg file size 58kB) > Linux => 2.71 MB/sec > WinXP => 3.42 MB/sec > > Copy file from Server to Client 0.99 GB > (avg file size 86,630 kB) > Linux => 4.06 MB/sec > WinXP => 8.49 MB/sec > I would make a

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Abhijit Vijay
--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:07 AM 3/17/2003 -0800, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I came to know from some of my labmates who did a > >performance test, that Linux Samba access is > >*significantly* slower (order of three times) than > >Windows SMB. Is there any re

Linux Security Week - March 17th 2003

2003-03-17 Thread Sean Rima
Originally to: All +-+ | LinuxSecurity.comWeekly Newsletter | | March 17th, 2003 Volume 4, Number 11n | |

SecurityFocus Linux Newsletter #123

2003-03-17 Thread Sean Rima
Originally to: All SecurityFocus Linux Newsletter #123 --- I. FRONT AND CENTER 1. Open Source Honeypots, Part Two: Deploying Honeyd in the Wild 2. IP Spoofing: An Introduction 3. Iraqi Cyberwar: an Ageless Joke 4. SecurityFocus DPP Program II. L

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > Hi All, > > I came to know from some of my labmates who did a > performance test, that Linux Samba access is > *significantly* slower (order of three times) than > Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be tru > and can this problem be fixed at

Re: Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:07 AM 3/17/2003 -0800, Abhijit Vijay wrote: Hi All, I came to know from some of my labmates who did a performance test, that Linux Samba access is *significantly* slower (order of three times) than Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be tru and can this problem be fixed at all? I

Samba issues

2003-03-17 Thread Abhijit Vijay
Hi All, I came to know from some of my labmates who did a performance test, that Linux Samba access is *significantly* slower (order of three times) than Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be tru and can this problem be fixed at all? Thanks in Advance, Abhijit. _

Re: safety/permissions

2003-03-17 Thread Ray Olszewski
Kurt -- Your problem is fundamental and based on bad advice (or a bad interpretation of good advice) about how to secure your system. You write "it is recommended here and there to make nothing world-wide readable, and also writable and/or executable". This is simply nonsense. Every standard pr

safety/permissions

2003-03-17 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello all, I have a quite serious problem (I guess) and I know, I can only blame myself. Anyway, I want to solve it in a 'nice', non-drastic way. I wanted to make my system somewhat safer, so I started, as it is recommended, changing the permissions and groups. This seemed to work and I thought m