>No it's not secure, but that may not be a big deal on a home network. writable + guest access + wireless network is not a good combination IMHO. Do you at least use WAP-AES? WEP is worthless and no encryption...well might as well put a big neon sign that says: "I'm open. Hack me!". If that's the way you want to go, at the very least, only run the samba service when you're about to copy new music onto your server from your XP machine and turn it off when you're done.
I would HIGHLY recommand login on your linux machine and run the smbpasswd command to setup a samba password as Michael suggested. man smbpasswd if you have doubts about the syntax. It's very easy. And then add the valid user option in smb.cnf. I used to run samba on a server for a few years, it's a great tools and there's many examples on how to set it up securely. Now I run webdavs though. Since I already have apache running on my server I let the https handle the encryption from my client to the server and the digest authentication is also build in. I only have apache to patch and it's a couple of ports that are not open anymore. I'm not saying webdavs is better than samba it's just another solution if you're more familiar with apache configuration. XP knows how to connect to it too. For me, since I'm running Gentoo Linux it also means that I don't have to recompile samba anymore so it's faster to maintain the server. I hope you'll add some security in your configuration. It's a LOT less work to do that to try to patch holes after you've been hacked... -WildCoder -- WildCoder ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WildCoder's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17892 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
