Mounting a remote Windows file system?

A friend of mine's Windows ME machine is crawling with viruses and
trojans! I've been round onece and fired up a Knoppix distro and ran
clamscan, which confirms the initial findings. Unfortunately, when I
mounted his HD, I didn't mount it rw, so I couldn't quarantine the files
(on a USB flash drive) - and ran out of time. I'm thinking that to
complete the task it may be easier for me to mount his HD remotely on my
machine - running the Knoppix distro. - and deal with it without having
to go to his house. Would the easiest and most straightforward way to do
this using Samba - or is there an easier way? With Samba I'll have to
explain to him that he needs to setup his C: as a share with r/w access,
groupname and password - but I'll have to talk him through this on the
'phone. I'm not that clued-up on Samba, and as I mentioned earlier, is
there an easier way to tackle this problem, please?

Jim Ford

Jim Ford wrote:
> A friend of mine's Windows ME machine is crawling with viruses and
> trojans! I've been round onece and fired up a Knoppix distro and ran
> clamscan, which confirms the initial findings. Unfortunately, when I
> mounted his HD, I didn't mount it rw, so I couldn't quarantine the files
> (on a USB flash drive) - and ran out of time. I'm thinking that to
> complete the task it may be easier for me to mount his HD remotely on my
> machine - running the Knoppix distro. - and deal with it without having
> to go to his house. Would the easiest and most straightforward way to do
> this using Samba - or is there an easier way? With Samba I'll have to
> explain to him that he needs to setup his C: as a share with r/w access,
> groupname and password - but I'll have to talk him through this on the
> 'phone. I'm not that clued-up on Samba, and as I mentioned earlier, is
> there an easier way to tackle this problem, please?
>
> Jim Ford


If you're trying to do it over the Internet, remember
that new infections can (and will) creep in via the
repair channel, unless it's a properly encrypted VPN.

I'd not enable SMB (for Samba) to the wide open Net.

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

Tauno Voipio wrote:

> If you're trying to do it over the Internet, remember
> that new infections can (and will) creep in via the
> repair channel, unless it's a properly encrypted VPN.
>
> I'd not enable SMB (for Samba) to the wide open Net.

Thanks for the advice - I'll take it! Any alternative suggestions?

Jim Ford

Jim Ford wrote:
> Tauno Voipio wrote:
>
>> If you're trying to do it over the Internet, remember
>> that new infections can (and will) creep in via the
>> repair channel, unless it's a properly encrypted VPN.
>>
>> I'd not enable SMB (for Samba) to the wide open Net.
>
>
> Thanks for the advice - I'll take it! Any alternative suggestions?
>
> Jim Ford
>


Leave the Knoppix CD with him, and have him boot the computer with it.
You may have to give him instructions on how to open ssh up (if it's
not by default - I don't use Knoppix enough to remember), but then SSH
into his machine from your house and do whatever it is you were going
to do.

RW

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http://rlworkman.net

Robby Workman wrote:

> Leave the Knoppix CD with him, and have him boot the computer with it.
> You may have to give him instructions on how to open ssh up (if it's
> not by default - I don't use Knoppix enough to remember), but then SSH
> into his machine from your house and do whatever it is you were going to
> do.

This sounds the promising. I've not used ssh, but I'll look into it.
Thansk for the suggestion.

Jim Ford