05-28-2009
Working with remote Unix files systems from Windows
I am currently using Samba to access remote Unix file systems from Windows. However, it is slow, and I presume insecure in the sense that file contents are transmitted unencrypted. I also wonder if passwords are transmitted in plain text in this protocol or not. For these reasons I am looking for an alternative.
I heard there might be a way to use SCP which is both faster and secure, but I don't know what program or package provides this functionality for both Unix and Windows.
The one good thing about Samba is that it is easy to address lots of different remote systems using UNC paths such as \\server.example.com. I am concerned that alternative implementations would rely on mapped drives, thus restricting the addressing to the number of available drive letters on the Windows system and having to remember which letter was mapped to which server.
What solutions are out there at the moment?
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masktest
MASKTEST(1) Test Suite MASKTEST(1)
NAME
masktest - Find differences in wildcard matching between Samba's implementation and that of a remote server.
SYNOPSIS
masktest {//server/share} [-U user%pass] [-d debuglevel] [-W workgroup] [-n numloops] [-s seed] [-a] [-E] [-M max protocol] [-f filechars]
[-m maskchars] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
masktest is a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between Samba's own implementation and that of a remote server. It will run
generate random filenames/masks and check if these match the same files they do on the remote file as they do on the local server. It will
display any differences it finds.
This utility is used by the Samba team to find differences in behaviour between Samba and Windows servers.
OPTIONS
-U user%pass
Specify the user and password to use when logging on on the shares. This parameter can be specified twice (once for the first server,
once for the second).
-s seed
Seed the random number generator with the specified value.
-n numops
Set the number of operations to perform.
-a
Print the operations that are performed.
-M max_protocol
Maximum protocol to use.
-f
Specify characters that can be used when generating file names. Default: abcdefghijklm.
-E
Abort when difference in behaviour is found.
-m maskchars
Specify characters used for wildcards.
-v
Be verbose
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
Samba
AUTHOR
This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].
masktest was written by Andrew Tridgell.
This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.
NOTES
1. Samba
http://www.samba.org/
2. Samba Team
http://www.samba.org/samba/team/
Samba 4.0 06/17/2014 MASKTEST(1)