[ale] OT: Using amanda to backup windows shares

[James P. Kinney III]

The security of the share depends on several things.

What version of windoze is doing sharing is a key issue. Win9x is wide
open. WinME is also. WinNT and w2kPro support at least encrypted
passwords to mount the share. The shared data is sent as unencrypted,
however. To have a complete, encrypted exchange between the win box and
the amanda server, you will need some vpn/pptp protocol on the win box
that something like stunnel can understand on the unix end. 

If only the mount access is the security problem, all you need is to set
up passwords on the winbox shares and smbmount will do the encryption
magic on the login.

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 12:06, Gene Matthews wrote:
> This is sligthly off topic, but collectively at least, this list seems
> to know everything!
> 
> I have amanda running on a solaris 8 box.  I have it up and running ok. 
> It is backing up several solaris and linux (ah, made it at least
> slightly on topic!) boxes.  I'm trying to expand it to backup a couple
> of windows boxes as well.  The doc indicates it can do this.  I'm doing
> some experimenting now with it.  I am thinking you have to share the
> windows directories you want to back up, which means turning on file
> sharing.  I've always heard this was a fairly major security hole.
> 
> Any one out there using amanda to backup windows?  Is there a secure way
> to share under windows?  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
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