[Swizec]

> Or another example: you're working at your office with a desktop computer running Plan 9. Then you leave the office for the night, but want to finish something at home, so you open up your laptop and have access to all your work files as if they are stored locally on your laptop. You just edit them in place and the copy at work is automatically updated as you go.

So basically an IP nightmare for many companies?

[forgotpasswd3x]

No more a nightmare than someone bringing in a flash drive and copying the file to it before they left. You'd only have access to things you already had access to.

[Swizec]

My girlfriend can't even access her work email unless she uses a company sanctioned laptop.

Sure that's just because she doesn't know how to set up VPN access on her own, but still.

[forgotpasswd3x]

Right, but there are still access control settings in Plan9 that would be able to limit access if the administrator chose to do so, there is just more flexibility to what can be done by default.

[Someone]

I wouldn't be so sure. Allowing employees to move arbitrary hardware running arbitrary software into their VPN is a security risk many companies do not want to take.

That is why it took pressure to get iPhones into enterprise networks.

[jacquesm]

I just got into a mess where the company VPN uses a windows/mac specific client, no linux version and no way to access the VPN. So knowing how to set up VPN access 'on my own' is currently of no use to me.

[jeffreyrogers]

It was mostly an example. And it's relatively to avoid the IP issues. Just don't let employees personal computers be part of the corporate Plan 9 system.

[Renaud]

But that's already the case if you company uses Google Docs or Office365.

If a company is intent on constraining access to data from its office space only, then it wouldn't select or open itself to such systems.