Samba and NFS need some explanations.

[Zane C.B.]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:08:10 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 13:01, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > > 
> > > The problem is that I still can't understand when do I need to use
> > > SAMBA and NFS?
> > 
> > SMB, what Samba does, allows you to export stuff to a single user.
> > Under SMB a user that a share is mounted as is the user access is
> > going to occur as. Use this one in a unsecure enviroment or in one
> > where windows are clients. 
> 
> That's a single user per connection.  You aren't really limited
> to a single user.
> 
> > NFS allows you to export stuff for multiple users. You mount it and
> > then who ever have proper permissions on the access stuff can access
> > it. Use this one only in a secure enviroment.
> 
> Note in particular that anyone who has root access on a client
> (or can boot a knoppix CD) can pretend to be anyone else in
> regard to the NFS server file permissions.

Yup, which is why you only want to use it in secure environments. It is
great for sharing stuff between servers. You can tell the NFS server to
remap root, but this largely useless though.