On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:08:04PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > 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). > > Right, but the question particularly listed WinXP as one of the > participating clients. Windows clients don't support the Unix extensions, > so they don't support encrypted SMB and that kinda ruins the whole thing, > eh? [sad face] Yes I realize that. But that's not what you said. You said: "The SMB protocol does not provide any mechanism for encrypting traffic between clients and servers." - but that's not generically true, only between *Microsoft* clients and servers. You made it sound like that was definitive, and you are the acknowledged authority on CIFS/SMB, so I couldn't let that stand. People link to your posts here :-). > Please allow me to join the choir on that. (I'll sit at the back and not > get in anyone's way.) [winky face] Maybe if we all wish REALLY HARD, Steve and Jeff will hear us.. :-). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
