Securing samba?

Joachim Dagerot jd at dagerot.com
Tue Sep 13 15:15:18 PDT 2005


I managed to narrow down the ssh accesss to only allow users with a RSA key. The server is now closed to a good extent.  (Thank you Alex Zbyslaw and Frank Mueller)


However, due to some windows clients in the network we are forced to run samba. Are there any known security problems with that? Is there a way to tunnel the file traffic over SSH without any trouble for the users? (It's ok to install keys etc on their machine, but they must only be forced to login with the windows password).

I guess my question are two:

1. Is samba safe enough to run on the LAN side of a machine that are available from the internet only on port 22 and only for users with a RSA key?

2. Is there a better file sharing system that works good for the windows users than samba?


Again, this lists assembled knowledge is certainly on of a kind!!!

//Joe




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