On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 05:59:41PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > The network traffic is not encrypted. > > The SMB protocol does not provide any mechanism for encrypting traffic > between clients and servers.
As shipped by Microsoft :-). The UNIX extensions to SMB allow encrypted traffic between clients and servers and Samba has supported this for a long time (smbclient -e will encrypt traffic). > The only good way to ensure that the traffic > is encrypted is to create a VPN and ensure that SMB traffic is always > contained within the VPN. Or use Samba smbclient to a smbd server :-). Of course, we really need this in the Linux CIFS client. Steve French - where's my encrypted transport code !!! (your monthly ping on this :-). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
