Re: Samba vs NFS

Hi Jennifer,

With NFS, the authentication is performed just by IP address. This 
authentication my may be forged more easily than SMB, which is done by 
login/pass. At this point, SMB is more secure.

If is not a hard work for you, use a ssh tunnel from clients to server 
using SMB.
I think it is a quite more secure than pure SMB.

Regards, 
Luiz Felipe de souza Gomes - luizfox
Network Administrator


Jennifer Fountain wrote:

>Hi all:
>My company is looking at samba or NFS to allow our clients to access
>shares from their Windows workstations and their linux ssh sessions.
>>From a security standpoint, which option is "more" secure?  Which option
>is more vulnerable than the other?  Etc, etc ,etc.  I appeciate any
>security information about NFS or samba that you may have.
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>Kind Regards,
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>Jennifer Fountain
>Systems Administrator
>R&B Distribution
>3400 E Walnut Street
>Colmar, PA  18915
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