Date   : Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:59 +0100
From   : theom+news@... (Theo Markettos)
Subject: Econet <> Ethernet

In article <2f806cd70907281450r7a13a45et94b55c5da02ec3c4@...>
you wrote:
> On 28/07/2009, Michael Firth <mfirth@...> wrote:
> 
> > That wouldn't help people whose primary machines are RiscOS though, as
> > having AUN open to an unknown community would still be a risk (no pun
> > intended!)
> 
> What services run on a RISC OS machine that would be a risk to
> external manipilation?

RISC OS has ShareFS to share drives between machines.  While it isn't turned
on by default, many RISC OS users use it and typically have write enabled. 
It uses a pair of UDP ports around 32xxx, but I'm not sure how it interacts
with AUN - whether those ports are the AUN transport layer or whether it's
purely UDP I'm not sure.  I'm not sure if it will work over AUN if AUN is
available.

Giving read/write access by random strangers to your files would be BAD :-)

Theo