On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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.
If you have the server edition of a virus scanner, it can do on-access scan from the server side. > 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:) Take a look at http://www.openantivirus.org/projects.php and samba-vscan. Looks like it uses the VFS later to intercept writes/reads(?) and does a scan. -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
