[32329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Nov 19 11:21:08 2000
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To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "'Scott Call'" <scall@devolution.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:19:12 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:19:12 PST, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> said:
> shares on the internet? We use SMB/Samba INSTEAD of NFS because we believe
> SMB to be more secure. smb.conf certainly gives more security options than
> exports does.
Don't confuse "more options" with "more security".
A protocol can have dozens of options, but yet be fundementally insecure.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
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