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Skriven 2011-11-08 03:55:12 av Mike Luther
Ärende: Re: Connecting Windows 7 to OS/2 ver 4.52?
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From: Mike Luther <mike.luther@ziplog.com>

Ah but ..

johnsuth@nospam.com.au wrote:
> In <9hkfjqFc74U1@mid.individual.net>, Victor Bien <me@privacy.net> 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..

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--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)

Mike Luther

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