protecting Win shares from viruses on Linux side

[Jerry Murdock]

Not positive about the linux side, but generally that's how their licensing
works.

Check out www.openantivirus.org.  They have a samba on-access scanner, have no
clue as to functionality/performance/stability.

Jerry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Conlan Adams" <conlan.adams at countryfresh.com>
To: "Mark Shearar" <samba at penguin.za.org>; "Ionel GARDAIS" <igardais at yahoo.fr>
Cc: "Samba Mailing List" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:34 PM
Subject: RE: protecting Win shares from viruses on Linux side


> On the same thread but a different thought
>
> Question about the Trend server protect for linux.  I was checking it out on
> their site, and spotted the license $xxx per 25 seats.  Do they want you to
> license it for every user in the  microsoft way?  so if I have 100 users who
> may connect to my samba server I would need 4 25 seat licenses?  so XXX*4?
>
> if you know or anyone from trend is available to awnser, I would love to run
> it on my server, but was a little hesitant until i find out what they mean
> exactly...
>
> -Conlan
>      Adams
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of Mark Shearar
> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:14 PM
> > To: Ionel GARDAIS
> > Cc: Samba Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: protecting Win shares from viruses on Linux side
> >
> >
> > I'm currently using Trend Server Protect for Linux and it works quite
> > nicely.  Only drawback is that it will only work on Redhat and only with
> > the Redhat kernel. (ie no kernel upgrades).  Another one is McAfee but
> > to be honest, it never picks up anything!!
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 19:47, Ionel GARDAIS wrote:
> > > thanks for the advice.
> > >
> > > I explain myself about "crashing"
> > >
> > > when the worm is active, smbd launches a lot of thread
> > > owned by the user with the infected file.
> > >
> > > then, all the following threads are launch about 10
> > > times in a second.
> > >
> > > this puts samba in a panic that unable users to log
> > > and/or to access their shares if they are already
> > > logged.
> > >
> > > finaly, smbd doesn't react to kill <pid> or hill -HUP
> > > <pid>
> > >
> > > the only solution is then to reboot the server.
> > >
> > > here is the explication of what I mean by "crash"
> > >
> > > cu,
> > > ioio
> > >
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