maybe i'm parsing this wrong... i map drives to the ip addy in a unc format.
in the map drive dialog i would put \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\c$ or \admin$ or what
have you, where values for 'x' above are octets of an ip addy.
[brooklynese mode=on]
insert disclaimer.h YMMV . i don't 'memba if y' ca' do dis witout netbios
ova ip, see, da fast way to find out ova heah is ta take dat checky off and
see if it flies. if it do... yer in like flynn. and dat's dat.
[brooklynese mode=off]
ok, now let's talk security. i use a NOS from m$, who are famous for their
statements about their products security. i don't want to anger them, so
i'll leave it at that...
there are firewalls and there are firewalls. i've seen banks with cisco
pixes. i like that idea... as for stuff running on a server?
i dunno. i'm too st00pid to figure out how to run a secure app (like a
firewall system) on an OS that has more back doors than a garden apartment
complex. there are a bunch of server based firewalls and stuff. when i'm
doing security work, i always recommend a 5 tiered approach that includes
user education.
a firewall without at least ip to ip nat and a proxy and a dmz and some
sitting down and thinking about what you want secure, and what you don't
care about is a waste of time and money.
so as far as server based firewalls go:
schools libraries and such use a thing called fortress. if it was expensive
and hirsute, i don't think that laypeople would use it.
there are lots of good security sites. i think i threw a couple of links up
yesterday, search the archive because other posters to this list know
security way more than i do.
find a good security list. it's worth it.
> >I didn't mean to imply that the mail server was using mapped drives, but
> >rather that its drives were mapped for use by other PCs. In the original
> >discussion, the suggestion was to have a separate anti-virus PC
> >scanning the
> >mail server by accessing it through mapped drives. This is where I
> >objected. Other than that, you and I are in synch.
> >
> >Someone told me that it's possible to use mapping without NetBios in an
> >all-Win2k network. I don't know how that would work, but it
> >would be nice.
> >
> >This entire discussion brings up an interesting point: how do people
> >configure their public IMail servers to be secure? Does
> >everyone turn off
> >NetBios, and if so, how do they handle file access (such as copying new
> >files) to the mail server? If they don't turn off NetBios, what
> >do they do
> >for protection? Or does everyone not worry about this at all?
> >
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