Re: Thoughts on Redhat 6.0

[Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@pegasus.rutgers.edu>]

On Wed, 5 May 1999, JF Martinez wrote:

> > is big in the home here, and so is file sharing over the internet.  I
> > have an NT WINS server here at work, and a lot of my friends point at it
> > from home so they can file share with each other over the internet.
> 
> Just thinking in this gives me the creeps.  You should read the Samba
> book and the accompanying texts on the CDROM.  Using SMB over the
> Internet is quite simply crazy.

I had the same feeling.

You can ( and should ) regulate access to SMBA using the hosts.allow
parameter in the smb.conf file.

-- Donovan