Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Summerfield
Paul William wrote: Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 sharing scheme. I was wondering about that ... There is nfs over ssl but its not yet ported to linux: http://www.crufty.net/Products/sNFS.html There is shfs, an ssh file system, but it seems too immuture t

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 23:31 -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:14 +1200, Paul William wrote: > > > Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 > > > sharing scheme. > > > what about http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/ . smbfs with > > unix exte

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:14 +1200, Paul William wrote: > > Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 > > sharing scheme. > what about http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/ . smbfs with > unix extentions? Recent versions of samba and linux support cifs and unix

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Paul William
Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 sharing scheme. I was wondering about that ... There is nfs over ssl but its not yet ported to linux: http://www.crufty.net/Products/sNFS.html There is shfs, an ssh file system, but it seems too immuture to use on a corperate

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Summerfield
Paul William wrote: NIS and NFS are differen tissues. What's your problem withNFS? Can't anyone with a knoppix cd create the right uids/users and mount the users home directory without any authentication? Fair comment. I control my LANs, but I see how I could lose control. If samba can authenti

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 10:53, John Summerfield wrote: > Paul William wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian > > stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running > > mandrake 10.0. > > > > Currently we are using NIS for authent

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 02 August 2004 04:24 pm, Paul William wrote: > Hi, > > I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian > stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake > 10.0. > > Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home > dir

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread John Summerfield
Paul William wrote: Hi, I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake 10.0. Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home directories. I have been having some hassles with