On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:08:50 +0100 Darrell Blake <dazblake [at] btinternet.com> wrote: > I want to thank everyone for their information. I did intend to run > samba seperately. There is no need for samba to be accessible from > outside the network. You should _never_ run samba across the internet, unless it's through an encrypted tunnel. Making samba accessible from the internet would be a very bad idea. > Would I have to set the samba network on a > different netmask or just a different IP set thing (I know it's wrong > terminology). Could I just set up my main network on 192.168.0.0 and set > the samba network on 192.168.1.0. Would this still be accessible to the > outside? It's gonna be a few days before I attempt to set up the network > but expect a few posts if I can't get everything sorted =o) No. You can still run samba on the same IP set thing (subnet), in fact it would be a lot of unnecessary work to set it up on a different subnet as you'd have to start giving the machines 2 IP addresses. All you need is to make sure the router (the box that connects to the internet) isn't part of the MS network, ie. it doesn't run the samba software. --Andrew -- sparc sun4c stuff : http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk/sparc personal email : bob at lostgeneration dot freeserve dot co dot uk
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