<div>On 10/12/05, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</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 01:08, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > What is the best way to share files with Windows users from FC4 over > an untrusted LAN? It would be great to have the functionality of SMB > but with the security of sftp. More specifically, it would be nice if > a Windows user could open files (play music) directly from the remote > drive. Are you really that concerned that someone will steal your music by sniffing the network stream? Samba is reasonably secure as far as password-controlled access goes.</blockquote><div> 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? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I am interested in doing this for an external hard drive. I've already > sucessfully done it with simply mounting it and sftp, but the process > on Windows side was somewhat clumsy. Use apache with directory indexing and https if you want network encryption. IE will execute things according to their filename extensions. I'm not sure I'd call that secure... -- Les Mikesell <a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a> -- 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.