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

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 11, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Pete Wright wrote:

> Pete Wright wrote:
>
>> 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.

-bob