Is it possible to share files with samba about the Internet?
And how?

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:35:49 +0000, root wrote:

> Is it possible to share files with samba about the Internet?
> And how?

sure, just set it up and have someone do this:
mount -t smbfs //IP/SHARE /local/mount/point

of course i would HIGHLY suggest against doing this ... why not use sftp
or ftp+ssl or something so much more secure?
-mike

So anyway, it was like, 00:35 CET Dec 06 2003, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
root was all like, "Dude,

> Is it possible to share files with samba about the Internet?

Just keep running as "root@localhost" and you might just accomplish
that without trying.

--
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> randomly warbled in
alt.os.linux.gentoo:

> of course i would HIGHLY suggest against doing this ... why not use
> sftp or ftp+ssl or something so much more secure?

Or, more to the point, something that HAS any security ...


--
Jeroen Geilman

All your bits are belong to us.

> root wrote:

I strongly suggest you do not do your daily work as root. Having proper
user/administrator separation is one of the key features (if not *the* key
feature) that makes linux secure and less vulnerable than windows.*

The reason is that as a normal user, you are only granted write access to
your personal files, not to any system files or programs. That means that
any software (save daemons) you run is also executed as that user: A
vulnerability in e.g. your browser or mailer cannot be exploited to
compromise your system.

Anno.

*) I grant that Windows XP has normal user accounts, too, but nobody seems
to use them. Bad Idea.