syburgh;295626 Wrote: > > Not a great idea to run SC7 open to the public Internet, but many home > routers support VPN... Or you create a virtual machine, give it read-only access to the "base" OS that actually contains all your music files (the same way you'd do if it was two machines networked together). Run SC on that virtual machine, and expose that VM to the 'net.
Even if someone breaks in, there's not much they can do, and you can repair any damage by stopping the VM, copying one file (backing up an entire VM is just a matter of copying a file or two), and restarting (you might want to disconnect the machine from the 'net until you've picked a different password). All theoretical for me as I have a commercial router and ipsec connections to my workplaces. I do use VMs on a regular basis, though. The easiest way to get a free one is to 1) download "player" from vmware 2) download a pre-built OS, like maybe grandma-lamp (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/581) I do work for customers who sometimes have ....idiosyncratic server setups. Once I've duplicated the idiosyncrasy in a VM, I can do most of the work at home, which I much prefer to sitting in a (usually loud, usually uncomfortably cold) server room somewhere. I've also persuaded one of these places that's currently got all their employee machines *really* locked down (people were opening their own private email, which was fine, and then clicking on all attachments, which sucked for the IT guys; ditto for downloading and installing EXEs) to put VMs on all these machines, where the employee gets to be a windows admin in that VM. If the user has problems, or if the VM shows up in Snort (so probably infected), it's a two-minute operation for IT to simply bring that VM back to baseline. The IT guys are pretty happy, and the users see this as being lots better than not being able to do anything at all -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46780 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
