FC6 and Samba

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:49 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Friday 09 March 2007, Craig White wrote:
>>> You really shouldn't be using samba/cifs sharing on your LAN since you
>>> have all Linux systems but you get away with it because you always run
>>> as root and it's clear that your methodology is to remove all security
>>> restrictions that are in your way.
>> Now that statement really puzzles me.  I run samba for the lan, not only 
>> windows to linux to windows, but also linux to linux.  I don't run as root, 
>> and I use selinux.
>>
>> Would you like to amplify your statement?
> ----
> sure - a smbfs/cifs mount pretty much discards the concept of posix
> users and doesn't understand Posix attributes, has no concept of the
> case in file names and finally doesn't permit executables.
> 
Cifs supports UNIX extensions. They both support mixed case. It
depends on the options you pick.

> 
> Take a Linux system...
> 
> touch 'my file.txt'
> touch 'My File.txt'
> 
> do the same thing on Windows/samba mount
> 
It again depends on the settings you use in Samba.

Mikkel
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