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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: SAMBA and NETWARE mounting
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 13:05:44 GMT
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In article <D2JnoD.1DD@pe1chl.ampr.org> pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl writes:
>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...

And plenty like 'The Snooper' have done it the hard way. I'm fond of Snooper
not only because its good, it runs on any old 286, but because they include
source and 'how to add a protocol' docs with it.

Alan
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