[MacTUG] OmniPrint - UW wireless printing tutorial

[Mike Patterson]

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Well, secure to the VPN endpoint, anyway. :-)

On 2011/05/30 10:49 AM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:
> Thanks Mike, I will stop my frets ;-) I forgot that since it was SMB,
> folks were not going to be working off campus anyhow, unless they were
> VPNing in which case that would be secure anyhow.
> 
> don
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> On 11-05-30 10:05 AM, "Mike Patterson" <mpatterson at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure it'll push the credentials, given the campus boundary
> blocks on SMB. It would need to establish a TCP connection first, which
> it can't, because SYN to all related destination ports is blocked.
> 
> While it's still a concern if credentials are potentially passed
> cleartext, it _shouldn't_ be a problem from off-campus.
> 
> (I'm not sure about the details of the rest of Don's question, "is it
> getting pushed each time," and I've been away so I'm not positive if
> it's been answered, email backlog...)
> 
> On 2011/05/26 9:51 AM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:
>>>> OK, so let me get this straight. A user sets up a printer on a secure
>>>> network and it is passing their password, which hopefully is not an
>>>> issue,
>>>> and hopefully no one is casually watching them type it in (in clear
>>>> text).
>>>>
>>>> A month later (or whatever), the user is sitting somewhere off campus
>>>> and
>>>> hits the print command, without thinking too much about password
>>>> security
>>>> -- despite having read Marlon's reasonably worded warning, way back when
>>>> they set up the printer. Are going to be passing that password each time
>>>> they print?
>>>>
>>>> Am I right that the password is being pushed every time you print, or
>>>> 'merely' when you make the printer connection initially? If it is
>>>> getting
>>>> pushed each time they print, my concerns over passwords being sent
>>>> unencrypted rises exponentially.
>>>>
>>>> don
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>>>> On 11-05-26 9:39 AM, "Ian Turner" <iturner at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
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>>>>> yes - not available to undergrads
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2011/05/26 09:36 , Matthew Oliver wrote:
>>>>>> The campus VPN service/project won't be available to undergrads as I
>>>>>> understood?
>>>>>> Am I incorrect in that assumption?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2011-05-26, at 9:33 AM, Dani Roloson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm guessing that using the SMB protocol here
>>>>>>>> would prevent any such off campus printing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Set up a VPN to use SMB from off-campus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/vpn/index.html#toc-connecting-mac
>>>>>>>
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