One painful acronym: VPN.
-tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Bosman, Don [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:38 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: AFS access from off-campus
In my haste to answer, since I was using OWA in one of the branch libraries
and bandwidth was a bit limited today, I neglected the caveat. If you are
using a MSU dial up access then Outlook and drive mapping will still work.
If one is using cable or DSL that is not tied to campus directly - the
blocked ports will not allow NETBIOS to function so drive mapping won't
work. Nor will Outlook 2000 or 2002, unless someone has a work around that I
am not aware of.
-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Clark [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thu 8/21/2003 8:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc:
Subject: Re: AFS access from off-campus
I'm replying using Outlook from my kitchen not on campus. If you
have
your .pst file somewhere on your lan on campus, then you are right,
you
won't be able to load that. But, Outlook will work from off campus.
Katie Clark
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Michigan State University
517.333.6338
-----Original Message-----
From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On
Behalf Of Bosman, Don
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: AFS access from off-campus
The campus network admins are blocking ports 135, 137, 138, and 139.
The
last three are Netbios ports and are what is used for mapping.
Outlook
won't work correctly from off campuse now either.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Gorentz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thu 8/21/2003 2:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc:
Subject: AFS access from off-campus
Two questions:
1. Does it currently work to map AFS space from Windows
computers on the campus network?
2. Has anything been done in the way of firewall-type
protection that would keep this from working from Michnet dial-up or
off-campus sites?
Some of our faculty members who are getting ready for
classes on
campus next week have been surprised to find that the AFS mapping
they
used to do isn't working now, either from dial-up Michnet or from
our
kbs.msu.edu subnets. They haven't gotten any useful information by
calling the regular consulting desk. I don't do this mapping
frequently
myself, and it looks like the web links that ought to take me from
the
cl.msu.edu web site to the pages explaining how to do it are broken
right now, so I am just going by what they've told me.
These faculty members use the AFS space to prepare materials
for
their classes. They understand that the computer lab staff is
inundated
with security problems right now. But they are also concerned that
maybe it isn't even working from campus computers.
(AFS mapping *does* work from our Microlab computers.)
John Gorentz
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
