Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Okay, I have been really wanting a NAS box for my house. > > I finally broke down and bought a Buffalo LinkStation Live from Fry's. A > bit expensive (and I could probably get away with the LinkStation Pro > which appears to be lower on the chain), but it seems to do what I want. > > It includes an gigabit ethernet, an internal SATA hard drive, two > external USB ports which can hold other drives, a printer, etc. > > Best of all--it's Linux under the hood. Yay. It even uses XFS for the > filesystem. Bonus! > > I presume it's running Samba under the hood. I see no particular reason > to change that, right now, so my question is: > > How do I secure Samba? Is there a way to encrypt everything, or is it > all in the clear? How about passwords? Is there a way to set up keys? > > Any suggestion would be welcome.
Someone probably is more up-to-date than I am, but.. Last I looked (couple-of-years ago), auth is encrypted by default, whichever mechanism is used (unless you go to some pain to config plain passwords). File transfer is not encrypted, and I don't ever recall seeing anything hinting options to do otherwise. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
