From dombrowh@sdsc.edu Fri Dec 20 07:08:41 1996 Return-Path: Received: from pauline.sdsc.edu (pauline.sdsc.edu [132.249.40.68]) by franklin.sdsc.edu (8.8.3/8.8.3/SDSCserver-13) with SMTP id HAA16453; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 07:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from jayd-fr-mac.remote.sdsc.edu by pauline.sdsc.edu (5.65/1.11-client) with SMTP id AA24938; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 07:08:37 -0800 X-Sender: dombrowh@pop.sdsc.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 06:28:52 -0800 To: Joshua Polterock From: Jay Dombrowski Subject: Re: general info Cc: Cindy Zheng , Jay Dombrowski , ntgang@sdsc.edu Status: RO X-Status: At 10:50 -0800 12/19/96, Joshua Polterock wrote: >I recently attended a one-day seminar on Windows NT/95/3.1.1. The >instructor of the NT seminar stated several times throughout the day very >specifically, "Windows 95 is not and cannot be entirely secured." For our >purposes, I believe we should not allow Win95 on our workstation network. >Along these lines, I believe we should not allow dual-boot configurations >of Win 95/NT. Good point on the dual boot systems. I agree that when an NT system is attached to a production IP net that being able to boot WIN95 on that system would need to be prevented. The networking group has a dual boot NT/Win95 operational in the networking test area. Specificly, this PC used to support dial-in users. The Ethernet connection lives on the MAC net for both OS. > >Dial-up from home through modem/ISDN is another matter. I believe there >are fairly secure implementations in this area. As far as answering >questions about Windows 95, currently the info tech group does not >suppport Windows95. Im surprised to hear that WIN95 is not supported. Is NT the only infotech supported Intel PC OS? jd Jay Dombrowski 619-534-5023 dombrowh@sdsc.edu fax 619-534-5152 From strande@sdsc.edu Fri Dec 20 07:19:00 1996 Return-Path: Received: from sleepy.sdsc.edu (root@sleepy.sdsc.edu [132.249.23.112]) by franklin.sdsc.edu (8.8.3/8.8.3/SDSCserver-13) with SMTP id HAA17132; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 07:18:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sleepy by sleepy.sdsc.edu (4.1/1.11-client) id AA09759; Fri, 20 Dec 96 07:18:57 PST Sender: strande Message-Id: <32BAAE61.2692FAFF@sdsc.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 07:18:57 -0800 From: Shawn Strande X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Dombrowski Cc: Joshua Polterock , Cindy Zheng , ntgang@sdsc.edu, infotech Subject: Re: general info References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO X-Status: Jay, Due to lack of resources (people mostly) we simply can't support Windows95 and NT. With only a handful of people we are currently supporting 3 UNIX OSes, MacOS, and now trying to bring another OS into production. That's about all we can handle. Clearly there are also security reasons for not bringing Win95 into the production network. From an Infotech standpoint we are committed to supporting OSes which are in the production environment. Unfortunately Win95 does not fall into this category. The short answer to your question is, yes, Infotech will only support NT, not Win95. We should probably make this announcement at some point. Shawn Jay Dombrowski wrote: > > At 10:50 -0800 12/19/96, Joshua Polterock wrote: > > >I recently attended a one-day seminar on Windows NT/95/3.1.1. The > >instructor of the NT seminar stated several times throughout the day very > >specifically, "Windows 95 is not and cannot be entirely secured." For our > >purposes, I believe we should not allow Win95 on our workstation network. > >Along these lines, I believe we should not allow dual-boot configurations > >of Win 95/NT. > > Good point on the dual boot systems. I agree that when an NT system is > attached to a production IP net that being able to boot WIN95 on that > system would need to be prevented. > > The networking group has a dual boot NT/Win95 operational in the > networking test area. Specificly, this PC used to support dial-in users. > The Ethernet connection lives on the MAC net for both OS. > > > > >Dial-up from home through modem/ISDN is another matter. I believe there > >are fairly secure implementations in this area. As far as answering > >questions about Windows 95, currently the info tech group does not > >suppport Windows95. > > Im surprised to hear that WIN95 is not supported. Is NT the only infotech > supported Intel PC OS? > jd > > Jay Dombrowski > 619-534-5023 > dombrowh@sdsc.edu > fax 619-534-5152