[THIN] Re: drive remapping
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:36:40 +0100
Accepting that virus protection tends to be reactive. And that
additional software that heavily manages all that users are able to run,
can be somewhat over engineered and expensive for some environments...
accepting all that, why allow users to be able to (firstly) see local
server resources (disks, and the registry (excepting HKCU)) on terminal
servers, and (secondly) be able to write to them?
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bishop [mailto:Tim.Bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 October 2003 12:32
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: drive remapping
>
>
> Virus protection is like contraception. There is that small
> chance that something will slip through your net of virus
> protection, no matter how sophisticated it might be. Who
> knows how sophisticated that virus might be?
>
> Sorry I think a little paranoia is a good thing, especially
> with servers with users working on them.
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, 13 October 2003 9:17 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: drive remapping
>
> You would rather hope that either virus detection, or
> (hopefully) not having users actually being able to write to
> the system drive(s) for terminal servers would sorta head
> that off at the pass, though.
>
> In general, drive remapping is not a good, nor bad thing -
> per se. Just something to do if you need to do it, or are likely to.
>
> If you don't, currently, there's nothing stopping you from
> changing - going back once you have, can be more tricky, though.
>
> Do it if you need to. If you don't need to, then you don't
> need to worry about it.
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 13 October 2003 12:10
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: drive remapping
> >
> >
> > One of the good things about drive remapping and not having
> > the system drive on c: in general is that viruses hardcoded
> > to use c:, such as Melissa, fail to execute.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, 13 October 2003 6:43 PM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: drive remapping
> >
> > The main considerations are - whether you are (or are likely
> > to have to) support apps that would truly require a hard
> > coded installation path to c:, *or* whether you need (or
> > there will be a future possibility that you will need) to
> > support local drive mapping and be specific about it being, say, c:.
> >
> > Being able to predict whether you will need things in the
> > future, can be a tricky thing - so realistically, it's going
> > to come down to whether you need to now - and let's be fair,
> > it's not a particularly significant deal.
> >
> > For what it's worth, I've never remapped an Citrix server
> > drives in my (nearing 6 years) experience of using them -
> > simply because I've never had the need to - other than that,
> > it's no biggie - if you need to, then do so, if you don't -
> > then don't.
> >
> > Other than that, there's no good practice, one way or the
> > other. I don't buy there's any greater likelihood that you'll
> > either need them remapped for preferred local client support,
> > nor for poorly deployed applications.
> >
> > Neil
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