Sharing files (ext. drive) with Windows from FC4

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/12/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


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?

> 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...
>
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