[nycbug-talk] NFS Client for Windows

[George Bourozikas]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:22, Jonathan wrote:
> Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Jonathan wrote:
> >> nice to have access to the files shared from my server.  I know I
> >> could set up Samba on the server but I would rather avoid that if
> >> possible.
> >
> >  From the windows machine you could use WinSCP to move files.
>
> I was trying to avoid that, my whole idea with sharing was for
> convience so I would not have to maintain separate copies and copy
> back and forth. FWIW I did get samba set up now I just have to get it
> secured so the whole world is not trying to get into the server.  My
> only gripe with Samba so far is you have to use cleartext passwords
> over the network with PAM or maintain a separate userdb :P

Like anything SMB, Samba is not nearly secure enough for exposure to the 
wider net.

--george