Re: OS X and FreeBSD: What could be a good setup

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 04/12/04

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To: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>

    Bart Silverstrim wrote:
    [ ... ]
    > I'm looking at using FreeBSD on a server (web, mail, file server) with
    > OS X, Windows, and probably Linux clients. I'd like the FreeBSD server
    > to handle authentication, but that may be a pipe dream to accomplish
    > across platforms easily :-/

    LDAP would be the way to go given the platforms you mention, although NIS
    would work for everything but Windows and would be much easier to set up.

    [ ... ]
    > That would leave SMB/CIFS, meaning SAMBA, but I haven't found anyone
    > able to tell me if CIFS is secure "over the wire". I seem to recall a
    > utility that would sniff network packets and if NFS is used, it can
    > capture the files as they're travelling over the network; can this
    > happen with CIFS?

    Oh, yes: unless you use an encrypted tunnelling protocol like a VPN or an SSH
    tunnel, pretty much all filesharing protocols are vulnerable to subnet-local
    sniffing. Using strong encryption when using wireless is a fine idea. :-)

    SMB/CIFS is a reasonably good choice of filesharing protocol if you're dealing
    with Windows or Mac systems using HFS+ due to case-insensitivity. For a
    pure-Unix setup, NFS (or NFS+NIS) would be a better choice. Modern Unices
    handle SMB about as well as they handle NFS. 

    -- 
-Chuck
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