Re: Understand and removal of QNTC definitions

It's not any more/less secure than browsing the network from a Windows PC...

To access any shares from it, you'd have to have a IBM i user name and
password that matches your windows user name and password.

A quick search doesn't turn up anyway to disable QNTC. Though there is
some sort of inter dependency with Netserver.

You might to change the authority *PUBLIC has to it to *NONE and prevent it
from being used at all.

Charles

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Operations is concerned mostly from a security standpoint. If it's an
auto-discovery of the system (or coming from the Win side) - what could it
be used for. This is an older system, many years of many programmers, many
operations people. We have had some IP issues (NFS hanging), some other IP
startup issues w/IBM, so we have been shutting off parts we don't use (like
NFS). If as Jim indicated it's a discovery since last ipl, then I wonder
why some previous systems I've worked on, that had Win users and mapped
drives via Netserver, have a blank /QNTC directory, yet this system is
loaded.
Jim

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Scott Klement <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim,

QNTC is IBM's Client-side interface to windows networking. The objects
you see under /QNTC are not data stored on your system, but rather are
other computers that are found on your network.

You don't want to delete these... the way you'd remove them is by

taking

those computers off of the network...

Can you explain what sort of problems these are causing that makes you
want to get rid of them?

The "File Shares" in ops nav are part of "NetServer" and are not related
to QNTC.

-SK



On 4/3/2015 10:55 AM, Jim Franz wrote:

On a large system we have a /QNTC with many hundreds of links.
At one point, a decade ago, someone fooled around with using /QNTC to
transfer data with Win servers and desktops. That was halted long ago,

but

all these links exist.
Operations would like to delete them all.
I will admit to not truly understanding /QNTC and after considerable
reading, I can't say I understand it any more.

In OPS Nav, under File Shares - there are none for /QNTC (but there

are

a few for / (ROOT) and we are working towards changing that..

We do have several products that interface with both i and Win servers,
but
we believe this is not via QNTC - we asked and they responded with ...
what
is QNTC? (one product still uses QDLS..)

So can I verify if any links are in use? in Ops Nav, right click a link,
and properties seems to do something that causes it to show as active or
in
use (it has a last use of date time when I asked to show properties...

If I remove a link in QNTC (either OPS Nav or WRKLNK) I assume I'm only
removing a "definition" to that Win PC or server... is that a true
statement?

Assuming no one sets up each one of these links, how do they

automatically

get created?


Jim Franz

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