On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 18:48, Jim C wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out > > it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues > > at stake. > > > > In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied attempts to > > relay spam mail through my server clogging up my logs right now in > > I don't have a mail, web or ftp server. I access only through SSH and > SFTP. I am single and live with a Creative Writing major who is not a > techy. That I know of, there has never been a "snot nosed brat" in my > apartment in the 5 years that I have lived here, unless fraternity > brothers count and I know that the guys in question are far more > interested in hedonism than anything technical. ;-) > > You've also not considered that as a graduate student, I might literally > have more important things to do. Security is on my hit list but > unfortunately it is not at the top. Graduation is. ;-) I do use > firewalls on my some of my clients that are windows based but the > learning curve for linux based firewalls prevents. > > I tell you what. :-) If it concerns you so much I will be happy to use > any configuration you are willing to provide that allows samba on the > intranet and blocks it from the internet and also does internet > connection sharing and SSH/SFTP. Eventually I would like to use tcp > wrappers for this sort of thing, though.
Jim what I have done to prevent internet access to home samba (like in my house) is not to put it on my firewall. The samba server is my desktop behind my firewall then my laptop and my wifes Korean Windows box are both behind the firewall and samba works fine. Like you I don't have a ton of time to devote to firewalls. I just want something that works and I don't have to think about it. I'm running an old 50 buck pentium 233 as the firewall with a 2 gig hdd. Currently I've got SNF running on it and I've tried smoothwall. both are OK but still not as mutable as I'd like.. BUT if you just want to set it up and walk away they both seem to do that. Web configurable and quietly in the background is all I need. > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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