Re: [SLE] how to connect two computers

From: Simon Roberts (thorpflyer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/17/05

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To: Maura Edeweiss Monville <memonvil@artsci.wustl.edu>, 'SuSE listSuSE mailing list' <suse-linux-e@suse.com>

    If the reason you can't connect your laptop to your server is security,
    then you probably should check if you are prohibited by your site's
    policy from using your laptop at all.

    Most sites that implement those kind of restrictions are probably going
    to have a security policy making it "illegal" to do things like this,
    even if you find a physical way to achieve it.

    So, if you want to get your work done regardless, by all means just go
    ahead and connect, but if you want to keep your job, you should check
    the policy with the powers that be and do things their way.

    Remember, there's a difference between a security policy (what you're
    allowed to do) and a security mechanism (computer systems and the like
    designed to prevent you doing things. Just because the mechanism
    doesn't prevent you doing something doesn't make it permitted.

    Especially in govt.

    Many other posters will document the myriad techniques that will make
    it physically possible to do this, so I'll shut up now :)

    $0.02
    Cheers,
    Simon

    --- Maura Edeweiss Monville <memonvil@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:

    > Now that at home I've got both a desktop and a laptop, I have to
    > transfer
    > some data from the desktop to the laptop.
    > The crude way I do that is to send the file from my desktop to a
    > server
    > and then download it from the server on my laptop.
    > Actually as the server is a goverment network, I do not have access
    > to the
    > server from my laptop (I sould install VPN to do that as I have on my
    > desktop) therefore I append the file to an e-mail sent to an account
    > I can
    > open on either cnmputer.
    >
    > Is there a more elegant/less cumbersome way to transfer data between
    > two
    > physically very close computers ?
    >
    > Thank you,
    > Maura
    >
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