From: "Geo" 

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:44c1bd4a$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> Also, instead of doing Windows share could I configure something more
sophisticated
> so that the Linux box acts like a file server using some more sophistacted
protocol
> that Windows understands? Would that approach be any more secure? If so,
how?

With windows file shareing there are several ways to authenticate, LM,
NTLM, NTLM2, if you can set samba to use NTLM2 then you are more secure
than NTLM which is more secure than LM.

Geo.

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