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#17565 - 13/09/2000 00:35 security
borislav
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 420
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
While I'm at work I have my empeg connected to our ethernet network. There's nothing stopping any of my coworkers from running emplode and deleting all my music while I'm looking the other way. Now, they wouldn't do that, of course, but still...

Are there any plans to secure the empeg in any way?

Borislav
(I'm not paranoid, it's just that everybody is out to get me)


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#17566 - 13/09/2000 07:19 Re: security [Re: borislav]
ClemsonJeep
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Registered: 09/11/1999
Posts: 398
Loc: Ashburn, VA
Are there any plans to secure the empeg in any way?

Yes, this has been brought up by some others, and the guys@empeg said they are working on it, either via passcode or some other means.

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#17567 - 13/09/2000 14:51 Re: security [Re: ClemsonJeep]
sc400
stranger

Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 42
Loc: SC
If you need an immediate solution, you could add another ethernet card (they're just so cheap) to you work PC, if they would let you. Plug the empeg directly into the new NIC with a crossover cable and only your computer would have access to the empeg.

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#17568 - 13/09/2000 15:04 Re: security [Re: sc400]
gb14772
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Registered: 04/08/2000
Posts: 37
In reply to:

If you need an immediate solution, you could add another ethernet card (they're just so cheap) to you work PC, if they would let you. Plug the empeg directly into the new NIC with a crossover
cable and only your computer would have access to the empeg.


Yeah, all I need is a SPARC/Solaris version of Empode. No, it doesn't compile, and I don't have time or the patience to port it.

-gbeck

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#17569 - 13/09/2000 19:26 Re: security [Re: gb14772]
sc400
stranger

Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 42
Loc: SC
Maybe I'm lost, but what does that have to do with this thread, or my last post?


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#17570 - 13/09/2000 22:33 Re: security [Re: sc400]
borislav
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 420
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Maybe I'm lost, but what does that have to do with this thread, or my last post?

I guess his work "PC" is a SPARC/Solaris box. If we have a bunch of those here too. I occasionally try to get people to install SPARC Linux on them

Borislav


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#17571 - 13/09/2000 22:41 Re: security [Re: sc400]
borislav
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 420
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
If you need an immediate solution, you could add another ethernet card (they're just so cheap) to you work PC, if they would let you. Plug the empeg directly into the new NIC with a crossover cable and only your computer would have access to the empeg.

Yes, that works. I'm not terribly concerned, though, since I can easily upload things again. I even got our IT department to register empeg.mycompany.com for me.

Borislav




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#17572 - 15/09/2000 17:04 Re: security [Re: sc400]
eternalsun
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Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
Off topic: What is a cross over cable? Is it a cable that lets you connect a device directly without using a hub?

Calvin "don't know networking"


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#17573 - 15/09/2000 17:22 Re: security [Re: eternalsun]
borislav
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 420
Loc: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Off topic: What is a cross over cable? Is it a cable that lets you connect a device directly without using a hub?

In the context of Ethernet, yes. Here is a site with a nice wiring diagram:
http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/net101/#chap4

Serial cables also come in two flavours - a normal cable connects a computer to a modem, a null-modem cable connects two computers. The empeg comes with a null-modem cable.

Borislav


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#17574 - 15/09/2000 18:41 Re: security [Re: eternalsun]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31597
Loc: Seattle, WA
What is a cross over cable? Is it a cable that lets you connect a device directly without using a hub?

Correct. It's the ethernet equivalent of a null-modem cable.

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#17575 - 15/09/2000 19:45 Re: security [Re: tfabris]
alear
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Registered: 05/07/2000
Posts: 301
Loc: Montana, USA, Bozeman
I made my own crossover cable from a regular cable when I first got my Mark 2. I had a 10/100 ethernet card but my hub is 100MB only. It works perfect.

Alex Lear
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