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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
Organization: PE1CHL
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References: <3eo2j1$l5o@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <D267uw.Grq@park.uvsc.edu> <D2HtyC.EnD@info.swan.ac.uk> <D2IuBx.Lwo@park.uvsc.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 09:57:49 GMT
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In <D2IuBx.Lwo@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:

>iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) wrote:
>>
>> In article <D267uw.Grq@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:
>> >That would get you hooked to a server, but it wouldn't let you
>> >login (but you could download things from the login directory and
>> >CD in unprotected subdirectories that don't require an authenticated
>> >login, like the OS2 subdirectory).
>> 
>> This much information is already around. A lot of network snoopers can take
>> the simpler Netware protocol requests apart. I got as far as reading/writing
>> files, cd and a couple of login bits before it became apparent that waiting
>> for Undocumented Netware was easier 8)


>Well, as far as I know, most of the "sniffer" type network protocol
>analyzers have licensed the packet decodes from Novell, and in
>getting the thing installed, you've agreed to their license terms,
>which include the sublicense terms from Novell.  And these explicitly
>disallow using the information provided for reverse engineering
>things.

But those license terms are null and void in most of Europe...

Rob
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