<div>On 10/12/05, Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:39 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Not really, I was more concerned about passwords. For some reason, I > assume them to be transimitted as clear text, correct me if I am > wrong. More importantly, how safe is samba on an untrusted LAN? They're only transmitted that way if you want them to be. Samba is under your control.</blockquote><div> Ok fair enough. Can I do Samba without a workgroup etc? (I have used samba, but only in the more general workgroup/domain/lan form) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Define untrusted... Family with no technical knowledge, LAN with a person you expect to cause you problems, LAN with people you don't know on it, etc.</blockquote><div> University network, publick IPs, Cisco routers between LAN and the "real world" and no network administrative privileges. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You can share things as read-only over Samba if you want to, and there's various ways to restrict who can access what. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com </a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.