[Samba] Re: samba as a replacement for ftp

[jason]

my .02,

run ssh on the server and use winscp as the client.
http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/download.phpB
It looks like like ftp to the windoze users.
And there is really nothing to install.
http://winscp.vse.cz/download2.php?file=WinSCP2.exe

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, mark wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 15:50, Francis Lau wrote:
> > As we do not have a very computer literate user base, we need to keep
> > things simple.  I've looked at coupling samba with ssl or kerberos, but
> > both techniques will require the user to install a client and/or other
> > software on their end.  We are trying to avoid this and let the users save
> > their files onto the server as though their share is on their local
> > computer.  Are there currently any other methods (samba or not) that would
> > allow us to achieve this?  (Samba's native encrypted passwords work great
> > in this sense because the users do not have to do anything at all other
> > than connecting to the server.  Of course, the encrypted passwords are not
> > very safe to begin with...)
> >
>
> You are in between the proverbial rock and the proverbial hard place.  I don't
> know enough about other systems to really do this.  My personal inclination
> is to put security first and ease of user second.  Which probably explains
> all the yelling at my house when I tried to get my wife to use *nix.  She now
> uses windows and I provide the firewall on the *nix computer.  But I digress.
>
> I thought that setting up a vpn connection with windows didn't involve users
> adding different software.  I've never done it, though.I know it may require
> you to educate your users, but in my opinion you're going to be better off in
> the end.
>
> There may be software that will allow users to access their filesystem via
> https.  I vaguely remember something like that.  I might have been dreaming.
> Or seen it on bugtraq with an announcement of some massive security hole.
>
> I'm hoping more technically adept people than myself chime in to give you
> suggestions that better fit your criteria.
>
> mark
>
> ps  Have you checked the archives?  I know I've told people in the past flat
> out NOT to do what you are thinking of, but I can't remember the response
> from others.  Worth a shot.
>
> mark
>
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