Join domain to use SMB filesystem?

[dstromberg]

ATM, I'm getting apparmored away from mounting these shares, possibly because I nmap'd the SMB server - they're pretty careful about security here.

Also, it turns out the SMB share isn't big enough for my purposes anyway, so this thread has become less than directly-beneficial to me.

[TheFu]

> What's the use in a chdir if you can't see anything inside the directory?

Some people will create a 755 directory inside a 711 directory, to avoid people being able to discover the presence of the 755 one.

One relatively common such use is on an anonymous ftp server.

Very true, 711 **is** handy for admins, but not typically for end users.

Almost nobody should be setting up an anonymous plain FTP server since around 2002. We've known better since at least then.

Just use HTTPS instead to share with the world, or sftp to share with authenticated users. While I do use NFS (read-only) to store files to be shared with some of my web servers and document servers, I can't see using RW CIFS storage for that purpose. Perhaps I'm not seeing the use-case.

Regardless, I'd be surprised if running 1 nmap command, specialized as it is, to get the protocol version support list would trigger anything. If that's the situation, someone from Data Security should have already shown up at your desk, taken you into your Boss's office to have a discussion. BTW, I had something like that happen to me at my first real job. My boss told me to "become familiar with the OS", so I started following commands and quickly found some datasets where lots of other things all pointed too. So I tried to take a look and got some RACF errors. Didn't think anything of it. Access was blocked. An error was shown. Fine. The next day, after lunch, some federal security guys were waiting for me inside my office (how did they get into the building AND into my locked office?) and asked me to come with them to my boss's, boss's office. Then they asked me questions for 30 minutes, until they were satisfied. I was told to write a report about what I'd done and why. To be turned in ASAP .... and in the meantime, stop doing that.

BTW, that wasn't the last time 2 Feds were sitting in my office at that job. Fun times!