Samba and NFS need some explanations.

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 18:08:10 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 13:01, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > 
> > The problem is that I still can't understand when do I need to use
> > SAMBA and NFS?
> 
> SMB, what Samba does, allows you to export stuff to a single user.
> Under SMB a user that a share is mounted as is the user access is going
> to occur as. Use this one in a unsecure enviroment or in one where
> windows are clients. 

That's a single user per connection.  You aren't really limited
to a single user.

> NFS allows you to export stuff for multiple users. You mount it and
> then who ever have proper permissions on the access stuff can access
> it. Use this one only in a secure enviroment.

Note in particular that anyone who has root access on a client
(or can boot a knoppix CD) can pretend to be anyone else in
regard to the NFS server file permissions.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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