A nice solution to AFS access off campus is to use the OpenAFS client
available at http://openafs.org/ . I have a copy of the windows 2000/XP
version at http://www.msu.edu/software/win9x/openAFS/ . I just started
using it recently so I do not have it on a published web site. I
checked with Doug and Joe and they are not blocking the ports for it
because of this weeks problems.
- Mel
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Mel Micke [log in to unmask] 517/ 35 5-4500 x110
Group leader - Network Information & Support Srvcs
Michigan State University, Computer Laboratory
301 Computer Center, East Lansing MI 48824-1042
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-----Original Message-----
From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of First, Tim
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:14 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: AFS access from off-campus
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
