> If the server is on your lan, then you probably do not have to > use FTP to get to that directory. The FTP directory is just another > directory on the sever. The server connects FTP requests to that > directory as a an FTP share by default. If you can browse the > server, you can probably mount that directory without FTP. (It helps > to be admin to do that... ;->)
The direcotries I am accessing are not shared via the lan. ftp is the only access that I have. Although I am an admin, so I can do whatever I want. =) > A switched network is still venerable to sniffing, the nature of > the switches or hubs doesn't stop a sniffer. However, if your LAN is > locallized, and does not connect remote sites, then sniffing is less > likely. In this theoritical situation, where would the sniffer be installed? I was thinking it would be on another machine on the network. Correct me if I am wrong, but this is my thinking. If you have three machines on a switch. Machine one is running pop3 or ftp(something with sniffable passwords), machine two is sending requests to machine one. and machine three is running a sniffer. Since we are on a switch, any requests sent from machine two to machine one would not be broadcast on all ports, just to the port where machine one is connected. Therefore if the packets are not send to the port where machine three is hooked up, how can it sniff the contents of said packets? was that confusing enough?
