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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5269)	1/18/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

"won't work on in your case because 1 and 3 are on different IP subnets" Well Sean, as you might have gathered from other posts, your proposal worked like a charm. While I haven't yet switched #2 to netbeui, 1 and 3 couldn't be happier, and performance seems a bit better to boot. I am a grateful, happy camper. I did realize that using TCP/IP would expose the LAN to the net--this is one reason I've used NT, and picked an unintuitive password. There are still back doors in that can be expoited. NT can br tricked into exposing its authentication secrets. MS patches them as they come out but they don't seem to be able to keep up. I know that there is at least 1 major hole that has yet to be plugged. TCPIP is just a protocol. MS networking is what allows you to share files etc. if MS networking can't talk to TCPIP then no one on the net can access your file system unless you are running some other service to allow this like TELNETD, FTPD, Unathenticated RPC etc. The internet only allows TCPIP traffic. Your MS Network only allows netbeui traffic therefore and TCPIP has not builtin in file access mechanism so basically your safe. I also see how 1 and 3 were on different subnets. But I still wonder why this was, given that 1 and 2 never were, irrespective of what combination of machines 1-3 were active at a given time. Seems odd. Luck, it will change daily as the DHCP server assigns addresses to all their US west customers. There DHCP server could be seup to avoid this situation as we do at my employer but obviously they haven't taken time to do so.... Mastering NT Server is a good introduction to this. I have another Sybex book on the preparing from the TCPIP test for MCSE that has better coverage of this material. Of course the bible for IP are the comer books but no one actually reads them cover to cover. Sean