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From: andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh)
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.183345.21200@jhereg.osa.com>
Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
References: <1991Mar15.200621.15994@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <AKU.91Mar25224735@vipunen.hut.fi> <4165@stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 18:33:45 GMT

In article <4165@stl.stc.co.uk> "D.S.W.Tansley" <dswt@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
>In the referenced article aku@vipunen.hut.fi (Jaakko Siuko) writes:
>>
>>You can switch volumes without knowing the names in NCSA Telnet!  Just
>>"cd /" in your the Mac you are connected by ftp, and you will be at
>>the "desktop" or root of your Mac.  Doing a "dir" at this level will
>>show you the names of different volumes.
>>
>>Jaakko Siuko	Helsinki University of Technology	Jaakko_Siuko@hut.fi
>
>Sorry Jaakko, that's codswallop! (I gotta support one of my (new) BNR 
>colleagues!)
>
>You definitely *can't* cd to other mounted volumes, at least using Telnet
>2.3. I have just tried to do it. cd / just puts you at the root of the
>boot disk; cd .. there does nothing either; cd <volume name> also does
>nothing. 
>
>Stewart Tansley     | STC Technology Ltd              |  'Be cool, or be
>                    | London Rd, Harlow, CM17 9NA, UK |    cast out...'
>dswt@stl.stc.co.uk  | +44 279 429531 x2763            | Subdivisions, Rush

I have successfully switched volumes, and can reach anything visible on the
desktop, including ANY MOUNTED APPLETALK VOLUME, a hard disk, a Syquest
cartridge, and a floppy. I haven't tried multiple partitions from the same
drive, or A/UX disks, but I wouldn't be at all surprised.

System security folks: Please note CAPS above. If someone is logged in to
the AppleShare server, and has FTP enabled in NCSA Telnet, they are, in
effect, publishing whatever volumes they have mounted to anyone with FTP
access to the same net. I tried this out, and it was rather cool.
-- 
Andrew C. Esh			andrew@osa.com
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