[nycbug-talk] [Fwd: Security Threat Watch 028]

[Pete Wright]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On May 11, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
>
>> Pete Wright wrote:
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>>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 11, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mikel King wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone encountered this MAC bug?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> i have heard of it, altho i don't think there is a virus or worm 
>>>>> loose yet.  the good news is that it's AFP that has the vuln, 
>>>>> which i think most OSX shops have moved away from by now...i hope ;^)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For what, SMB?  NFS?  You must be kidding.
>>>>
>>> no i'm not.  sorry.
>>
>>
>> what other crossplatform, mostly open (via samba) network file system 
>> would you suggest?
>
>
> You said "most OSX shops", if it's an OS X shop, you don't care about 
> using a protocol that would interop with something else.  In my 
> experience, when you have macs talking to macs you use AFP, otherwise 
> you use SMB.  You have to go out a little bit out of your way on every 
> client and server to use something other than AFP if they're both 
> macs.  There is no very compelling reason to move away from AFP.


hey i'm an OSX shop, but that doesn't mean i shouldn't take into 
consideration how things are gonna grow in the future.  I guess the 
argument against afp, despite all of it's positive aspects, is that 
people are now free to move away from it and use more open 
technologies.  i was just assuming most people were i guess.  doesn't 
seem to crazy to me...

-pete


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