Date   : Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:03:17 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Econet <> Ethernet

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 14:41 +0100, Theo Markettos wrote:
> 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 :-)

ShareFS isn't really anything to do with AUN or Econet.  It uses UDP
ports in a similar range to AUN's (&800x) but that's about the only
thing they have in common.  There's no linkage between the two systems
so there aren't any security implications to having ShareFS enabled on a
public-access econet, as such.

p.