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- From: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Ulf Andrick [Biologie])
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: How to mount PC file systems via tcp/ip?
- Keywords: mount PCNFSD
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.020243.17128@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 02:02:43 GMT
- References: <920825115700@cream.ftp.com> <1992Aug20.210004.15614@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Sender: news@rhrk.uni-kl.de
- Reply-To: andrick@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Ulf Andrick [Biologie])
- Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
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- In article <920825115700@cream.ftp.com>, jbvb@vax.ftp.com (James B.
- VanBokkelen) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug20.210004.15614@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Ulf Andrick) writes:
- >
- > I read somewhere that one could use idmnt by FTP to mount directories
- > of another PC running SOSS (Stan's Own Server) and wanted to try it.
- >
- > But idmnt attempts to transmit user and password and seems to expect
- > some appropriate response, which SOSS apparently does not deliver.
- > ....
- >
- > In an effort not do do "the Emperor's New Clothes" with "NFS Security",
- > the IDMNT.EXE we distribute insists on authentication via a PCNFSD server,
- > and doesn't allow the user to specify the UID/GID as integers. Thus, it
- > can't talk to SOSS. However, you can get from our Tech Support people
- > a MNT.EXE which lets you specify UID/GID and mount SOSS (and other things
- > that don't have PCNFSDs available).
- >
-
- I thought that asking for a password was the proper thing to do for idmnt
- and attributed the problem mainly to SOSS. I hoped that it could be set up
- to accept a request for `authentication'. The idea that it could be possible
- to suppress idmnt's request never occurred to me. It is a solution, though not
- really the desired one.
-
- I don't really like the idea that the server is accessible to everybody.
- But one security measure might be to give the directories to mount some
- incomprehensible names. By joining the hard drives to a virtual disc, it
- might even be possible to make the whole filesystem of the server
- accessible from such a directory, which would reside on the virtual disc.
- Is there any possibility to fool this, so that one can mount the directory
- without knowing its name?
-
-
-
- Ulf R. Andrick andrick@rhrk.uni-kl.de
- Tierphysiologie
- FB Biologie
- Universitaet
- D-W 6750 Kaiserslautern
-