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SubjectRe: R: Do not use stock RedHat 6.0 kernels with SMBFS! [OFF-TOPIC]
"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com> wrote:
[...]
> time, my preference is to support the real servers. I say the Windows 95
> systems aren't real servers anyways and shouldn't should be used as such.
> They have no file system security, they have only minimal network security
> (if you call share passwords security at all), they passwords are not
> encrypted,

Neither are telnet and FTP passwords. Besides, unless public-key
cryptography is used, passwords have to be stored in plain-text (or
another sensitive format) on disk if they are to be encrypted on the
network.

Win95 isn't a server, but it's often convenient to share CD-ROMs
and local printers.



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