According to Laine Stump:
>
>1) NFS uses Sun RPC which makes it difficult to get through a firewall
>in any kind of reasonable fashion without potentially allowing lots of
>other (non-RPC) stuff.
>

Uhhhh - IMHO no firewall administrator in their right mind should
allow NFS through (or on) their firewall anyway.

>
>Hype? Yes. 

Definitely.

>Useful and a "Good Thing(tm)"? Also yes.
>

We shall see.  I expect this subject is going to get well and truly
thrashed on the firewalls mailing list (firewalls@greatcircle.com) in
the coming weeks.  My gut feeling at the moment is that CIFS is a
gaping, supperating hole.  Enough people have trouble setting up an
anonymous ftp account properly, I shudder to think what CIFS is going
to be like.

As I said, this will, undoubtedly, be bashed a lot on firewalls which
is the appropriate place for this....

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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