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thumbs up for the "setting up samba" part. It is the safer approach

pqnet
– pqnet

2014-08-07 00:46:14 +00:00
Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 0:46
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@pqnet: could you please qualify how and why it's safer?

0xC0000022L
– 0xC0000022L

2016-01-15 23:33:56 +00:00
Commented Jan 15, 2016 at 23:33
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@0xC0000022L because it does not depend on the virtualizator being able to trick effectively the guest operating system, which may break if the operating system change. Samba is a network protocol, thus the guest operating system has less expectation on what it can and it cannot do on it.

pqnet
– pqnet

2016-01-16 16:56:52 +00:00
Commented Jan 16, 2016 at 16:56
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This doesn't do windows guests

Thomas Browne
– Thomas Browne

2020-04-24 18:15:08 +00:00
Commented Apr 24, 2020 at 18:15

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