On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:12, yossarian wrote: > <snip> > > File and printer sharing is not needed? Remote administration is not > > needed? Maybe not in home use, but in corporate? > > No, sorry Paul. Printers have their own IP address, file and printersharing > was introduced for small networks. But since the mid nineties a network > interface became standard in laserprinters- printersharing became a real non > issue. File sharing: not for workstations, unless you make backups of every > workstation. Not suitable for corporations, user data is corporate property, > needs a back up so MUST be on a server. It is impossible to secure a network > where file and printsharing is common (where is the sensitive info to > secure?) - my personal BOFH way is disable the server service on every > Workstation. And the browser service as well. > What planet are you working on? I have bought 5 printers in the last three years and 2 of those had built-in network cards. The others use "jet-Direct" type interfaces which require software to be installed on the server. You're saying I install this on everyone's workstation so they can connect directly? Uh huh. No file sharing; everything should be stored on a central server. Sure, no problem I'll just go out and drop $100k on a SAN to store it all. *Or* I could take advantage of the fact that every machine I buy comes with at least 40 GB of drive space on it. And I'm sure you're going to suggest thin clients here, so I'll go out and buy a small render farm for my graphics guys to do their 3D work on.
> Remote administration may be needed, I just said it is rarely used, for > various reasons, the foremost being that the support staff don't know sh**t > about the inner workings of windows, MCP or not. Right and what inner workings do I need to know to use my remote patch management software without RPC? It's really handy actually, but then again maybe there's a better way to do it that I'm just to stupid to know about. <snip> Hopefully we can all agree that anything Microsoft can do to attempt to make it's O/S more secure is better than the way it is now. Kenton _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
