On Friday 08 February 2002 06:10 pm, you wrote: > > I think the confusion is based on trying to both firewall and serve? At > >least it is for me. I seem to remember when e-smith recommended that > >firewalling and serving should be done separately, on separate > >equipment. I tend to agree > >with that. > > For the large corporate environment, I think your right. For the small > business owner, this would never fly. Take my company for example. > There is no way I'd recommend we spend $7k-$10k for a cisco firewall, > then pump more money into a file server. SME has a PERFECT market > nitch. It's primed to go head to head with Windows server and in my > opinion it will win.
Well windows doesn't offer a decent firewall solution as far as I can tell. So whatever soultion should include a decent firewall. Also, you need not spend such large amounts of money for a really fine firewall. I build a nice one, I will stack up against those higher priced ones, feature for feature, for $1k. You can too. > > This like any other development issue can and will be solved. Problem > is, this community isn't coming together to solve the problem like it has > on others in the past (50% of the posts are complaints about who's > responsible and who isn't, etc.). This project needs some leadership and > direction (wish I could offer more in this area but I'm still learning > alot of this stuff). In my opinion, Mitel needs to play a role in this > for it to be ultimately successful. A good example of this is > implementing Samba 2.2 on SME 5.1. Wonderful collaborative effort. Yes, hear, hear. I couldn't agree more. Thanks for sharing. Bob > > Regards, -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
