Re: windows/Linux sharing

Johan Lindquist wrote:
So anyway, it was like, 11:03 CEST Aug 11 2008, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
aarklon@xxxxxxxxx was all like, "Dude,
Johan Lindquist wrote:
So anyway, it was like, 13:33 CEST Aug 08 2008, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
aarklon@xxxxxxxxx was all like, "Dude,

In my office there are lot of ubuntu machines and a few windows
machines, now how to access data in the Linux machines from
windows machines , without using samba....????
You can always install an NFS client on the windows machines, I
suppose.

Your requirement to not use samba sort of begs the question "why"
though. It's generally the easiest and most common way to set up
linux or unix shares for microsoft users.
Setting up Samba can be a royal pain, so any time I can use
something simpler, I jump at the chance.

Your experiences differ from mine in that regard then. Compared to
setting up NFS (which is out of the question anyway since it's not
secure by default either, I suppose) on the windows end or teaching
the staff to use scp instead of "normal" windows file sharing like
they're used to, it's not that big of a deal to set up samba shares.

The "bonus" is that for all intents and purposes, samba servers will
look like any other file server in a windows network. You can even,
which may on the other hand turn out to be that pain in the ass you
mention, make it authenticate against a windows domain controller
already in place.

Second, Samba shares aren't secure by default. Call me paranoid, but
I don't like anything flowing over a network that isn't encrypted.
Yes, it's possible to tunnel Samba using SSH, but that just adds
more time and trouble on top of the royal pain that Samba sometimes
causes. Finally, Samba was designed for LANs, not the wild and
woolly Internet,

Your original question made it sound like it was indeed an office LAN
and nothing else. Using samba or NFS over the internet would be kinda
silly, no argument there, and not just for security reasons either.

so accessing shares remotely is out of the question (yes, there are
ways to do it, but it's just not a good idea on today's Net...and it
causes yet more complication!).

I guess it's down to using scp if you want all that security and
the optional internet access to local resources. Although, for an
intra-office network it's abit overkill in my opinion.

FWIW I regularly exchange data with a remote server on teh Internet. Its set up to accept an SMB mount from my Ip address only, which works very well.

It also has a web interface to data: I can upload files and download them ia PHP scripts from a pass powrd authenticated apache/MYSQL server combination. I could have run that as https, though I dont bother.

The data not being of any interest or use to anyone else. Its esentially drawings and words uploaded by designers and wordsmiths to create products and marketing material: i opened up the samba as its a slow, but usable way, to get at files in the common storage area, rather than files in the database itself.


Inside the company firewall the same methods are used, just much faster!

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