In a message dated: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:25:47 EDT
mike ledoux said:

>I'm facing some pressure here of the 'if this was an NT server,
>this wouldn't be a problem' variety, so I'm really hoping that there
>is a known solution for this problem.  Google was pretty unhelpful
>on this, turning up a bunch of links that all ultimately led to
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/openantivirus/, which appears very much
>to be not ready for prime-time yet.

I didn't know NT could do this either.  Samba only mimics an NT 
server from the network file system level, it doesn't replicate the 
whole OS under Linux.

In order to do this, you'd have somehow intercept the write-to-disk
calls that Linux is performing, or, have Samba pipe the output stream 
through a virus scanning utility before it sends that data stream to 
the Linux kernel to be written to disk.  I have no idea how you'd do 
this.  How does NT do it?  Do they really scan the data stream before 
it gets written to disk?  I mean, that's pretty cool, but also 
insanely in-efficient (hmm, Windows, in-efficiency, okay, so I'm a 
little redundant here:)

Ben, any ideas on this one?  You seem to be our most knowledgable NT 
guru ( I mean that in a good way, really I do :)


-- 

Seeya,
Paul



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