-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 christopher j bottaro wrote:
>now i sit down to use a friend's computer or a computer at school. i want >to mount my home dir into this computer's file system. is this possible if >its a linux machine? if its a windows machine? if it is possible, how can i >do it? what are the security issues involved? What problem are you trying to solve? There's probably a better way to do it. I can think of at least a few reasons that you should reconsider your approach: - - You want to connect to your home computer from untrusted machines. That means any trojans on those machines which happen to be capturing passwords will own your home network. It's foolish to trust public Windows machines. If you must connect to your home network from outside, do it from a secure, trusted, single-user host, and tunnel all traffic (in which case the next caveat won't apply). - - There's a good chance it won't work, because many ISPs block 137:139 on consumer dialups. I don't know of any that block 22 yet, though, which makes ssh (or an ssh tunnel) a good bet. - - You want to transfer files over what will presumably be a relatively slow link. Remember that even if you have a high-bandwidth connection at home, it's likely that it's asymmetrical, meaning your upload speeds will be anemic. If you're mounting entire Windows shares, expect to be disappointed under these circumstances. - - You'll need some way to find your (presumably dynamic) IP address from outside. A Linux gateway can do this by emailing its IP address to you at some predetermined interval (this is what I do), but it's still a bit of a hassle. If you just need access to a few files from elsewhere, consider copying them up to an external source (like perhaps your webspace at your ISP, if you have it) and access it that way. Just my thoughts. - -d - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBO+thc79BpdPKTBGtEQJnxgCgiXd9D94O5U0uZAcGoxCPyWRlgsoAn1VQ lvDXKc6lrv7+Dqrg8pAExbv9 =iwXq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
