Re: TIS Gauntlet : WINS and Exchange

["James Moore" <jim () bokler com>]

When faced with a similar situation last year, I used the VPN feature 
to tunnel all the "network neighborhood" stuff through the firewalls. 
That seemed to preserve all of the Windows networking features, and 
do it more securely than the "generic" proxy service on the firewall. 

James Moore

On 31 Mar 98, you wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> So I am currently on a project that involves
> a number of m$ products; <sigh>
> "Know thy enemy" is what I always say 
> though.
>
> check this: the company has 2 WINS servers, the primary
> one is in their uptown location. Their secondary is
> at their downtown location, where I am.
> So they do WINS resolution _over the INternet_. 
> (no inter-office connectivity
> except through the net). Is WINS and port 137-139
> netbios services the same thing? How the fsck does WINS
> work anyway? More importantly, how will I pass
> it through the Gauntlet firewall (plug-gw?) ( is there not
> the fear that somebody can just use smbclient and
> a cracked password to access the drives?) Not only
> that, but they do the Exchange database replication
> also _over the internet_. needless to say, their
> setup is fubar. but I have to know how does the m$ sexchange
> db replication work anyway? (which ports or anything)
> more importantly, how do I pass it through gauntlet?
>
> I believe I might have to just tcpdump
> on the wire and figure out what's happening,
> cause RFC1001 and RFC1002 aint fun reading.
>
> Suggestions, flames, comments welcome.
> --Anindya
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