Re: [LUG] Samba

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/05/17 17:21, Neil wrote:
> On 25/05/17 13:49, Joseph Bennie wrote:
> > Samba is the unix implementation of the SMB and CIFS file share 
> > protocol.
> >
> > â its not exclusive to windows. But they did invent it. And it it the 
> > most common technology for its use case.
> >
> > Most operating systems can talk SMB(v1 - v3) and CIFS .
> >
> > Personally I prefer other more secure file sharing technologies so I 
> > disable this even on windows hosts to harden them.
> Do you mean that it is safe to remove it? I don't do any file sharing.
>
> Neil
Sorry if this is stating the blindingly obvious. Just to clarify, this 
isn't file-sharing in the movie/music downloading sense, it's sharing 
files across your own network. However as has been pointed out there are 
other technologies that perform the same function.

Julian

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