[CUBE] How do I set up Local Network password? Thanks for the Help.

[Allan Hise]

J.C. Webber III wrote:
>atoa at krak.net wrote:
>>
>> NO! You don't. You still don't get it. You can log into your "server
box"
>> from practically any computer connected to the lan, even if in Baghdad
>> assuming an internet connection, with the same user/pass. You don't
need
>> to create a separate user/pass for every computer that wants to
connect.
>>
>
>Yes you do.
>
>It can be the *same* username and password, but the server box needs
>to know who you are.
>

I'm with atoa on this one.
All you need is acces rights ON THE SERVER.
I can log in to the server with my cube or with my ibook or any other
machine I feel like using the account I have ON THE SERVER. The whole
point is that it does not matter where I log in from, because I have
access rights ON THE SERVER.

One can setup a server to blacklist and/or allow only certain IP or MAC
addresses, but that's beyond the scope of this. You need to have a
username & password on the server you are connecting to, and use that
username and password, to login/mount/etc.

Now if you are talking multi-user systems, each user has to know a valid
username & password on that server. There is nothing stopping my wife & I
from using the same username & password on the server. But the server
admin could just as easily setup a unique one for each of us.

But it really doesn't matter which computer we connect from. (Unless, like
I said above, the server is setup to only accept connections from certain
machines).

Allan