Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:59:14 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Secure communication with a windows box Message-ID: <200006280629.PAA90412@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200006280305.XAA35649@sanson.reyes.somos.net> from Francisco Reyes at "Jun 27, 2000 11:00:29 pm"
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Francisco Reyes wrote: > One of the things I am doing is trying to identify all the areas > where we could use FreeBSD. > Today I just found out there is a project which consists of > keeping some data on the network, but safe. > I can read/research about a secure/encrypted file system myself. > What I would appreciate some pointers is what is a good way to > have a secure connection between a windows box (probably NT) and > a FreeBSD Box. This would need to be preferably NFS or Samba. I > am not sure ftp would be convenient for these users > (Accounting). > > Is there any reasonably secure way to have secure connections to > mount a freebsd directory from NT? > Perhaps some kind of tunneling with NT? Although I haven't actually tried this, you could do this by compiling Samba with SSL and using sslproxy (see the ports collection) on the NT side so that the Samba shares were mounted over SSL. > One thing I was thinking of proposing was Rsync, but I am not > sure how this would play with them since it is almost as arcane > as ftp in terms of interface. Using rsync is quite different from mounting a file system though. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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