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Subject: Re: Disabling services
From: John Madden (weezAVENIR.DHS.ORG)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2000 - 16:50:34 CDT

> > You could either try AFS (http://www.umlug.umd.edu/linuxafs/) or ...SMB!
> > Export your partitions using samba, and then mount them on other machines
> > using smbfs :-)
>
> SMB is more secure than NFS?! How do you figure? The only problem I
> see with NFS is with the UIDs (unless you set it up correctly in the
> first place), but under SMB/Samba, you have problems with passwords
> (again, unless you set it up correctly in the first place)

Perhaps he's referring to the long history of NFS-related vulnerabilities?
It's gotten me into the habit of turning off all NFS-related things just after
a fresh install, in fact...

John 

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