-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Brewerton wrote: > Thank you all for the various answers. To answer some of the > questions: Yes, I have a hardware firewall in my router (Linksys) and > I've checked it out via Gibson Research and it came up very secure.
I do not share the same perspective on security as Steve Gibson. The man is a genius to be sure, but his idea of a "stealthy" machine is very very wrong. This is incidentally the short short short answer. The site is not a bad starting point for checking out your security, but it does not go deep enough to be truly useful. > This is for a home network so right now there is the router after the > cable modem plus another router upstairs to supply the wireless for > my notebook and one computer and to do wired service to two other > systems. All at this time are Windows XP or W2000K. I'd like to have > a server for files like music (mp3) or movies and anything else like > that. I currently have my domain hosted for e-mail only via Telus but > I'd like to be able to do that myself and save the money as well as > be able to build a web site eventually. I get the idea that I should > do that on a separate system from the File Server and that Ubuntu > seems to be the most common choice right now. I've got a couple of You may not be able to host your own email server at home unless you upgrade to a more commercial connection, thus obliterating the cost savings. In spite of this, I do recommend running your mail server, there is no better teacher than experience. > systems in the Pentium IV 2.5/2.8 + 1 to 1.5GB RAM range that I'm > assuming would work for this. I'd have to check out Hard Drive sizes, > These are overkill. Until recently my file server was a PIII 1Ghz with 1 Gig of RAM and a GigE NIC. I did not upgrade to improve network performance. In fact there has been no change when compared to the new AMD dual core machine in terms of network or samba performance. > especially for the file server. I'm building another system that's > much more powerful, but that'll go to one of my daughters and free > hers up for Linux use as one of the above. None of the other hardware > associated with those particular systems is "leading edge". One is > basically a music file server unofficially right now anyway. That > one's running W2K. It sounds like samba is what you are after. I use samba to do exactly what you are after, to share movies and audio files. I connect to the samba machine from both Linux and Windows. > > I guess I'll try putting all the pieces together and see what I've > got. I guess finishing the one for my daughter to free her hardware > up should come first. > > Thanks to all for the answers and I'm sure I'll be back eventually > with more questions. Good to hear. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0inqwRXgH3rKGfMRAhtxAJ4/kMjtmngMCKMZq0TMbfbqhKamygCfYf5S AitftQr9jpFKrPYJdbBXbJk= =SRlb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
