Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:14:16 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup Message-ID: <407AEA88.90401@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <E6F31F15-8954-11D8-A222-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> References: <E6F31F15-8954-11D8-A222-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>
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Bart Silverstrim wrote: [ ... ] > I'm looking at using FreeBSD on a server (web, mail, file server) with > OS X, Windows, and probably Linux clients. I'd like the FreeBSD server > to handle authentication, but that may be a pipe dream to accomplish > across platforms easily :-/ LDAP would be the way to go given the platforms you mention, although NIS would work for everything but Windows and would be much easier to set up. [ ... ] > That would leave SMB/CIFS, meaning SAMBA, but I haven't found anyone > able to tell me if CIFS is secure "over the wire". I seem to recall a > utility that would sniff network packets and if NFS is used, it can > capture the files as they're travelling over the network; can this > happen with CIFS? Oh, yes: unless you use an encrypted tunnelling protocol like a VPN or an SSH tunnel, pretty much all filesharing protocols are vulnerable to subnet-local sniffing. Using strong encryption when using wireless is a fine idea. :-) SMB/CIFS is a reasonably good choice of filesharing protocol if you're dealing with Windows or Mac systems using HFS+ due to case-insensitivity. For a pure-Unix setup, NFS (or NFS+NIS) would be a better choice. Modern Unices handle SMB about as well as they handle NFS. -- -Chuck
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