Re: question - directories

[Chris Peredun <cp@cleannorth.org>]

Dan Brosemer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:32:20AM -0400, Deanna Maki wrote:
> > After I went to start, run, and typed "\\odin\\obiwan"
> 
> You mean \\obiwan\odin
> 
> > Another window opened, "odin on obiwan", with 15 items in it, and 19
> > hidden items.
> 
> Great!  So that's what it is... Samba maps the username no matter what, but
> only presents it as an option if you are the user in question or if you have
> an active connection to it.
> 

A computer doesn't need to be in network neighbourhood to connect to
it, you just need the name.

> > I dont think I should be able to do this.
> 
> Why not?  UNIX level permissions are still in effect.  Try opening, say,
> procmail.log from \\obiwan\odin in notepad.
> 

Access denied. I certainly hope that everything isn't read-enabled.

> If you can do that, then there's something I need to fix.  If not, we're
> good... maybe we need a little more user education, but we're good.
> 

Can't read it. There's plenty of other stuff that could be read &
cloned onto a separate location. At least \\obiwan\bin\root is
blocked to all.

> > I am also still seeing Lauren's directory under network neighbourhood -
> > but on Luke this time.
> 
> Yes.  Something in your profile is telling NT to connect to it on logon.  I
> could kill your profile and it'd go away, but considering it's more of a
> minor annoyance than anything, I wouldn't worry too much.  I'll find where
> in the registry the 'connect on logon' shares are stored and kill it
> properly later.
> 

Chris

-- 
while (1) { fork(); }
If this works on a multiuser b0x0r, fire your admin.