On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:53:14 -0800 A Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services > for him, most of which are completely unrelated to my topic. > Now, onto my topic: > He asked me if I could partition all of his workstation computers > (running windows XP Professional SP2) with a windows partition, and a > hidden partition which occupies most of the disk, that is accessible > over the network to OpenBSD (actually he asked for FreeBSD, but I will > change his mind...) to back up his server. He doesn't want his > employees > to know about it or to be able to interact with this "hidden > partition" in any way. I told him that it is not possible, because > windows controls the hardware (being the OS on the system) and the > only way it would work was if he had *BSD on the system. But, because > he is paying me, I thought I should give him the benefit of the > doubt, and ask the pros in this area. > So, is it possible for OpenBSD to access a bunch of "hidden" (I put it > into quotes because it could be any non-windows compatible partition, > > because it won't show it then) partitions on networked workgroup > computers and treat them like one big disk for backup? It might be possible to do something similar by setting the permissions on the partition to disallow all access from the normal user. The users would be able to see the existence of the partition but not be able to access it if they can't change the permissions. Then if you can find a windows NFS server that runs as a daemon and allow the partition to be accessed over the network only from the BSD server. Or if you could find a ssh daemon for windows, you could use that to allow the server to use scp to transfer files back and forth. Eric Johnson &
