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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