NFS Windows/Linux

[Mark J. Dulcey]

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Mike Bilow wrote:

> A standard installation of Samba -- per the Debian package, for example -- will
> configure it from inetd.  The documentation with Samba explains the options of
> doing it this way.  I strongly recommend using at least the tcpd wrapper where
> you can as a basic security measure, unless you intend your Samba resources to
> be publicly accessible.

Depends on the distribution.  Red Hat installs it as a daemon.  It
performs better that way, but you don't get the option of using the tcpd
wrapper for security.  Putting Samba behind a firewall is another way to
provide security for your systems, if that is a concern.