Re: [Sheflug] Re: BNC Network Question

[Darrell Blake <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Cut the Samba any other thought of your gateway as a server.  You are
> helping the hacker/cracker to get into your systems.  Remember to use
> iptables or ipchains.  Make sure you use all the latest updates.

Why cut the samba? I need this to share files between machines (the other two 
are windows machines). I could set up another machine with smoothwall on and 
use that as the gateway for the whole system, would this help? I'm not too 
fluent on ipchains or iptables. I attended the meeting where Alistair gave a 
talk on them but that's pretty much all I know about them.

> Your gateway box will accept connections from any internal computer.
>  All you have to do is make sure that routing of packets through your
> gateway box is done in the right way.

How would I do this? I'll be using TCP/IP but this is my first time (really, 
apart from networking my linux box to a smoothwall box a few months ago) at 
networking.
 
> Location of your internal machines doesn't matter.  As long as you
> remember to plug in the network cable and configure the network cards

What I meant was, if one machine isn't plugged into the network will it still 
function properly.

Cheers,

Darrell

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