On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:50:24AM +0000, ian wrote:
We remotely manage the Linux servers of around a dozen schools and broadband ignorance is a real pain in the whatsit. Eventually (sometimes in excess of 6 months) the LEA/consortium realise that SSH is a secure
Good to know I'm not the only person to have encountered this attitude. I managed to annoy quite a few people by being equally boneheaded. (At one time using the RBC for web browsing only, with an ISDN connection to a regular ISP. Until they sorted their lives out.)
method and the devil and his cohorts are not going to invade their schools because we want to open a port for SSH access. We have had schools threatened with OFSTED, the DfES etc for not paying a lot of money to be connected to the broadband and then they are expected to compromise their whole IT strategy when their understanding of the issues is 10 times that of the LEA. We get banal things like ADSL is no good because they need videoconferencing only to find that the reality is that they can only videoconference locally because the security won't allow them to do it out of the consortium - fat lot of good for a specialist language college. How are members of the community supposed
But they promise there will be an H.323 to PSTN gateway being installed somewhere around "next Tuesday". (Presumably once someone can figure which overpriced propriatary product to use since going to http://www.openh323.org must be too much like hard work...)
to access the school for passing homework etc from home to school?
SCP works quite nicely, even with Windows machines. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763