From: Tim Boyer 

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:41:05 -0800, Randall Parker

wrote:

>Suppose you wanted only a small number of people to get access to a directory
tree
>but they were scattered all over the place. How would you do this?
>
>1) FTP.
>
>2) Samba.
>
>3) Other.

Samba.  That is, if they need browsing access.  Single downloads with a
known file name, secure ftp.

>
>How secure is Samba?

Pretty secure, and you can configure it to run over SSL.  In the last five
years I think I've seen two alerts.

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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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