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Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323
From: Henry Hertz Hobbit <hhhobbit () icarus weber edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 03:02:58 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Hal wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone has had much luck securing Microsoft's Netmeeting product? This topic has been discussed here and on other lists. People usually just throw up their hands when dealing with it. What's the best advice? In summary here's what I found out about it..
... the rest omitted Given what you have found, I can understand people throwing up their hands! Looking at how previous and current firewalls are constructed, it sounds like the whole firewall paradigm must change to suit Microsoft! I once installed version control software from Microsoft and others (PVCS, et al) for a company that wanted to test the different software packages for version control. The first instruction for Microsoft's was to NOT install it as root, but as a NORMAL user. Since PVCS is installec by the pvcs user this didn't seem all that unusual. But the directory you installed the software in had to be mode 777 (Unix). After the install was finished ALL the directories and files were mode 777! If Microsoft programmers thought that some programmer was going to curb their impulse to take advantage of that scenario when they felt that they were too far behind, they were idiots. Why is it that Microsoft can't seem to get off its high horse and do some studying of the way others are doing things (especially firewalls) before they come up with something? Unless they want to build the firewall, they should harmonize with what is already there. They need to understand that even schools today are going to have to firewall themselves for protection. And the scuttlebutt among managers a year or so ago was that Windows-NT was going to replace Unix? Sheesh! If I was in charge of the Novell servers I wouldn't be shifting away from anything other than the IPX to IP, ON the Novell server - easier management, fewer people required, . . . Henry Hertz Hobbit
Current thread:
- Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Hal (Jun 01)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Henry Hertz Hobbit (Jun 02)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Kjell Wooding (Jun 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Jan . Bervar (Jun 02)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Frederick M Avolio (Jun 02)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 David Bonn (Jun 03)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Rob Poland (Jun 03)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Frederick M Avolio (Jun 02)
- FW: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Hal (Jun 02)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Jan . Bervar (Jun 03)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 ark (Jun 04)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Bernhard Schneck (Jun 04)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 ark (Jun 04)
- Re: Dealing with MS Netmeeting & H.323 Tony Schliesser (Jun 03)
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