[AccessD] security issue with Office XP

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Oct 28 04:47:50 CST 2003


Hi Bryan

>> Samba is not related to a Novell network. It is for letting a Linux
>> server acting as a Windows server in a Windows environment.

> I wasn't sure if you needed Samba to hook up a *nix box to a Novell 
> Network or not, that's why I threw it out there.

> But that's not all Samba is for. You can use it to have full 
> Read/Write permissions on remote  NTFS drives under Linux. Linux has 
> built in Read capabilities for mounted NTFS drives, but not write. If 
> you install Samba, you get the write abilities because you end up 
> mounting an SMB drive and not an NTFS one.

That's right and I think NetWare 6.x has some optional SMB
capabilities as well. However, normally you connect to a NetWare
environment using the NetWare Client, don't you Susan?

/gustav



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