Message-Id: <199708282221.PAA26389@mailhost2.cac.washington.edu> From: "James W DeRoest" <deroest@cac.washington.edu> To: "AST Webpage" <astweb@u.washington.edu> Subject: SMB authentication in labs -- Progress Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:21:20 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: Yonah Karp <yonah@u.washington.edu> To: Elizabeth Williams <betsy@u.washington.edu>; M. McNair <mcnair@u.washington.edu>; Adam Ith <aith@u.washington.edu>; Steven Jones <noyd@u.washington.edu>; R. Campbell <ryanc@u.washington.edu>; Oren Sreebny <oren@cac.washington.edu>; Jim DeRoest <deroest@u.washington.edu>; David A. Cox <dcox@cac.washington.edu>; Brad Greer <brad@u.washington.edu>; R. Christ <rchrist@u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, August 28, 1997 3:19 PM Subject: Re: SMB authentication in labs -- Progress
I've reserved the third floor 4545 conference room for 3-4 PM Monday, Sept 8. See you all there.
Yonah
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, David A. Cox wrote:
> As far as the status goes, I can at least give a quick shot at that.
>
> Things are going rather well. We have been testing the Mac FTP client
> "thing" for about a week now on 6 machines in the CRC (relativly high use)
> and it is going well. We had a few snags, but Steve has fixed all of them
> promptly, and things are great now.
>
> The PCs are a little more touchy on when we can deploy the test into a
> "real world" setting, but it should be soon. We have tested it inhouse
> with good results. Steve did mention that Win95 does something odd with
> the case in passwords, but hopes that it will not be a problem. I suppose
> we will track down such issues as they come up.
>
> I have talked over some "tracking" issues with Steve, and I think we are
> set on that. The idea is that if someone does something bad, and it is
> tracked down to a hardware address, I should be able to pass that address
> down to Steve (or whom ever owns the authenticaiton machine) and get back
> the name of the person last logged into the machine before the bad thing
> happend (files will be stored for a week, then deleted).
>
> My latest questions involve stats. It would be very interesting to note
> how many logins we have per day, and then how many DIFFERENT login names
> are seen. Then the same info for a week. This will give us a feel for how
> many visits we are getting vs how many different clients we are serving.
> It would be interesting to see this same data on a quarterly basis as
> well, but I don't think we want to keep track of that much data for that
> long. So my questions are:
> 1. Can I get my paws on the log things on a scheduled basis so I
> can do these stats?
> 2. What format would these log things be in?
> 3. Can we separate the logs by subnets that they are comming in
> from (so that I can do stats on the CRC and UWired Commons, but not mix
> the data)?
>
> And finaly, do we have a firm data on when "bud" (the replacement for
> Simba02) will be comming up on line?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DAC
>
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Yonah Karp wrote:
>
> > Do we need to meet again to get status and resolve any issues?
> > If we can do it in email, fine -- I know some of the principals
> > have been talking with each other and I know Steve has been
> > making good progress but I'm not sure that the group at large
> > knows what's up. Could we get a status and hear requests from
> > the people working on this?
> >
> > Yonah
> >
> >
>
>