On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:20:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Samba is a very helpful implementation of CIFS, and I congratulate its > authors. But CIFS was *not* built for data security. Encrypting such > traffic would be an amazing performance hit on the server side. If you > need secure data transfer, and do not need the kind of live sharing > that CIFS or UNIX protocols like NFS provide, I'd urge you to use > "git" for SSH based access to a central repository with local editing > and full source control features. It's still a performance hit over > direct file sharing, but it works well for interrupted connections to > the primary document source, and I really like it for laptop or remote > data center operation.
Ahem. We *do* implement encryption on the CIFS stream in the Samba server. Works well with smbclient -e option. All it needs is for the kernel client to implement it. It's not such a bad hit on the server side of things :-). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
