NFS, AFS and Samba

[Ansar Mohammed]

There are some implementations that are pretty good quality. But AFAIK you
need Kerberos running to get the security benefits.

BTW, how many people use Kerberos out there? I am still using
nss_ldap/openldap.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Fraser
> Campbell
> Sent: April 16, 2007 9:20 AM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: NFS, AFS and Samba
> 
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 12:33, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> 
> > So what do the majority of you guys use out there?
> 
> I've been using NFS, usually with a dedicated VLAN for NFS traffic.
> 
> > I am finding NFS completely insecure unless I have 100% control over all
> my
> > clients that are mounting volumes. Does anyone use AFS?
> 
> What about NFSv4, is it still a pipe dream or is it useable yet?  NFSv4 is
> supposed to handle encryption and authentication in a reasonably secure
> way.
> 
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