Gecko/20100403 SeaMonkey/1.1.19   
   From: Mike Luther    
      
   Ah but ..   
      
   johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:   
   > In <9hkfjqFc74U1@mid.individual.net>, Victor Bien  writes:   
   >>  I have had a Windows XP computer networked to my OS/2 computer for years.    
   I access the volumes and print on the attached printer.  Now I want to move to   
   Win7.  Apart from the huge reinstall of applications I have to do I in the   
   Windows environment I have a conceptual blockage with working out how to   
   retain that connection if possible?   
   >>   
   >>  XP connects because I have Netbeui working on it.  Netbeui is not   
   available for Win7.  I have never understood SAMBA or how to get it to work.   
   >>   
   >>  Another option is NFS but the reading and the potential cut and try seems   
   it will blow out.   
   >>   
   >>  Anyone here can offer some clues?   
   >    
   > I reluctantly switched protocol to Netbios/TCPIP, which is included in   
   4.52.  It    
   > was relatively painless.   
   >    
   > I maintained the security of my Windoze box by denying it access to the   
   router.   
   >    
   >    
      
   The problem about allowing use of Netbios/TCPIP with OS/2 itself is that it is    
   possible for an external source outside of even your 4.52 OS/2 box that is    
   connected to the Internet to puncture your OS/2 box itself!  I have actually    
   seen where external virus operations can attack even an OS/2 box using this    
   protocol to dump files into the OS/2 box in virtually every directory!  Now    
   that done, sure, maybe they are WIndows viri stuff.  And that doesn't work on    
   an OS/2 box, unless, per chance, you have the device driver(s) also installed    
   on your OS/2 box to let it interface to, say, an internal OS/2 box on your    
   network behind the router.  Aha!  Another naughty vector for trouble.  But    
   wait!  There is more!  If you can play this stunt, you can also modify, say,    
   the CONFIG.SYS file to 'run' something else on startup that is punched in to    
   your OS/2 box that way!  Or, groan, even a DOS nasty starting point issue in    
   even the conventional AUTOEXEC.BAT on it.   
      
   I have seen this contamination for real on several OS/2 boxes in the past with    
   Netbios/TCPIP installed and it has been a MESS to decontaminate the boxes. As    
   well I have even actually seen a contamination issue where remote TCPIP    
   probing has been done to even modify the motherboard BIOS settings on an OS/2    
   4.52 box to slam in the keyboard man-in-the-middle snoopie.   
      
   I *STRONGLY recommend that one does not use Netbios/TCPIP on an OS/2 box if    
   there is any way to avoid it..   
      
   --    
      
      
   --> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)   
      
   Mike Luther   
      
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