Re: How secure is a mapped-drive share?

Jack Burris wrote:
> Let's say you have a couple departments that need to share files across
> campus. They are not in the same building. Department A creates a
> share on their file server, and sets permissions to allow for person_1
> in Department B to access the share.
>
> How secure are the packets between the file server in Department A and
> person1?
>
> Would you trust this channel for secure information (without a VPN, just
> normal campus network)?

Unless you have IPSec or an SSL tunnel enabled, the data is, in
principle, viewable by anyone intercepting the packets. That's actually
true even within a single subnet. The distance does not really influence
the issue.

You have the same problem sending information to network printers.

Graham

-- 
Graham Patterson, System Administrator
Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
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