[Macpartners] How safe/secure is 'Personal File Sharing' on Mac OS X?

[Stefan Stasik]

Hi Mac Partners:

I have a user who is inquiring about turning on and using Mac OS 10.3
'Personal File Sharing' so that he can access his systems drives at MIT
from home.  He wanted to know if this is recommended and/or safe.

Anyone have any thoughts on this service??  What protocol is this using?

Is there a way you can lock it down somehow, by IP range, that makes
sense?

Thanks for any suggestions/tips.

- Stefan

Stefan Stasik - stasik at mit.edu - (617) 253-7208 - Building 9-250
System Administrator - MIT Academic Media Production Services