Article 46 of alt.destroy.microsoft: Path: udel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!illuminati.io.com!brettw From: brettw @ io.com (quantum) Newsgroups: alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Does IBM WART have NETWORK DRIVERS? Date: 21 Mar 1995 17:32:43 GMT Organization: Illuminati Online Lines: 56 Message-ID: <3kn2jr$5ms@illuminati.io.com> References: <3kj73a$7g4@illuminati.io.com> <3kk7c5$bfn@dns1.net-connect.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pentagon.io.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sean Summers (me @ net-connect.net) shouted from out of the ether: > > Hey, if you want to go ahead and use a system that exposes your entire > > network to the Internet, go ahead. If you're running WFWG on machines with > > an internet connection, there is a good chance that your drives, and others > > on your network are mountable over the Internet. > Dream on. How do you expect to be able to mount drives from a WFWG > machine... magic? Try any port you want; unless you're running a server, you > won't get crap from a WFWG machine (well, at least trumpet will respond to an > ICMP ping request). Not a dream. Fact. It has recently been discovered that WFWG machines connected to (non-firewalled) internet routers, expose their drives and all those connected to it, to the internet. PCWeek was able to run WFWG connected to a router, and when they went to "Connect to network drives..." they were given a selection of hundreds of drives from all over the country. They were even able to mount drives at Microsoft. When MS was informed of this, they said it was an "Undocumented Feature"!!!! UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE my asshole. They are exposing their unknowning customer's critical data to the internet. MS should be sued by anyone who has lost data through this mechanism. > Are you saying that OS/2 has access control? Give me a machine running > OS/2 and a nfs server, and show me how you can control access on a file or > directory basis? I'm just saying that OS/2 doesn't have the same gaping security holes that WFWG appearently does. But OS/2 LAN Server certainly gives the aforementioned access controls. > I don't like microsoft any more than the next linux user, but don't go > around slandering software while promoting something with the same (if not > imaginary) weaknesses... I'm not. > > If you want peer-to-peer, buy LANtastic for OS/2 -- it'll hookup to your > > WFWG machines, Novell servers, NT Servers, and OS/2 servers -- with > > security, and for $89. > Sure. Try to use some remote access software on such a network.... You face no more hurdles than on any heterogeneous network. > Sean -- ========================================================================= Brett Wooldridge | "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important brettw@io.com | operating system, and possibly program, of all time." \____ -- Bill Gates IBM Taligent Team \ brettw@austin.ibm.com | Amiga3K-NetBSD <=== ethernet ===> 486/80Mhz-Warp =========================================================================