Re: [WinMac] Remote Access / Appletalk
Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 14 May 1999 10:18:12 -0500
Hmmmm..."Won't run AppleTalk for _security_ reasons"...that's a new one by me.
Exactly _how_ is AppleTalk a security problem?
Yep, that might be the problem, if you're going through an NT remote access
server. Out of the box, with the proprietary MS authentication scheme only
Windows systems can connect, iirc.
They have to go to the standard PAPS/CHAPS (I forget the exact one or it may
be both) authentication. And then they would have to run Services for
Macintosh so you could talk to the desktop box.
Of course, if they did that, why you could save your files on the file server
where they're reasonably safe and backed up regularly instead of the desktop
boxes where vital corporate data is at the whim of individual workers
doing backups.
These are exactly the kind of roadblocks that cause people to do things like
install modems on their desktop machines so they can dial in to get their work
done. Thus creating _real_ security problems.
<sigh>
/mini-rant
Am I the only sysadmin on the planet who thinks his job is to make life
_easier_ for the users rather than _harder_?
/mini-rant
Jason Clement wrote:
>
> I have a question I am hoping someone can help out with. I am one of about
> 20 Macs on an NT network. I have tried to access my workstation at the
> office from home using Remote Access several times unsuccessfully. The
> System Administrator refuses to install Appletalk because of "security
> reasons" and I was wondering if anyone knows if this could be the problem.
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