  A flux liquid can condense into a smectic crystal in a pure layered
superconductors with the magnetic field oriented nearly parallel to the layers.
If the smectic order is commensurate with the layering, this crystal is {\sl
stable} to point disorder. By tilting and adjusting the magnitude of the
applied field, both incommensurate and tilted smectic and crystalline phases
are found. We discuss transport near the second order smectic freezing
transition, and show that permeation modes lead to a small non--zero
resistivity and large but finite tilt modulus in the smectic crystal.
