Re: remote access getting round a firewall.
From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1@attbi.com)Date: 05/26/02
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From: "Charles Newman" <charlesnewman1@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 17:07:42 GMT
"Lars M. Hansen" <badnews@hansenonline.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 25 May 2002 23:45:33 GMT, Charles Newman spoketh
> >
> > That depends. Maybe this guy brings work home with him
> >at times, and wants to send the files he needs to his home
> >computer system. Sending files to your home computer, to
> >do work from home, could be considered a work purpose.
> >Floppy disks are too unreliable, and companys are not going
> >to put Zip Disks in every computer, at $100 a pop, so being
> >able to send work to your home computer, if you need to work
> >at home is the only real way.
> >
>
> If this was for work purposes, his manager should present it to the IT
> director, explaining that he needs access to his home from work (or work
> from home), and they can then set something up, preferably a VPN
> solution.
>
> >
> > Not if your connection is hidden with an open socks or HTTP
> >proxy you wont. You will know that a person went to the proxy,
> >but where they went BEYOND that proxy you would not know.
> > I used to run a public proxy on my cable
> >connection, before they changed the rules to disallow it. Because
> >it was on ports 1100 and 8901, you are not likely to be able
> >to detect it. If anyone from your network ever tried to connect,
> >via my public proxy, to somewhere else, you would NEVER have
> >known about it, becuase it was on "non-standard" ports.
>
> Since non-standard ports are usually blocked by firewalls, they wouldn't
> be able to connect from the work LAN to the external proxy...
Well, when I ran my public proxy, I did get quite a few hits
from people on corporate networks. Most of the people who
connected through my proxy were listening to Internet radio.
A lot of admins were obviously clueless that somoene could
connect to my public proxy. There are quite a few clueless
admins in the IT field.
>
> >
> > As far as installing stuff, I would tell him to bring his own laptop
> >and plug it into the network with all the software he needs. All he
> >has to do is to change the network settings to be able to interface
> >with the network. On top of that, he can carry his work to and
> >from work on his laptop, and just copy the updated files to his
> >storage space on the. If he travels a lot for work, and needs to
> >to have access to his files, it is a MUST. He can download
> >what he needs into his laptop before he leaves, and then copy
> >the updated files back into his work account when he returns.
> >
>
> Connecting personal computers to a work LAN is often prohibited by
> corporate policies. It's likely to get someone in a load of trouble...
That is a prohibition that does not make sense. There might
be a piece of software that someone may need to use, that is
not available on the company network. How are they going to
know anyway? Your login and password are going to be the
same no matter what computer you use to connect to the
corporate network.
Where I went to college, faculy and staff often brought
their own computers and plugged them in, in their offices
and nothing ever came of it. One professor even had three
computer once, his laptop, plus two others, that were plugged
into the network, by using a splittter, to plug three computers
into one network outlet, and nothing ever happened to him.
How would they have known anyway that he was plugging
three computers into one network outlet in his office?
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