FredBasset;250448 Wrote: 
> I'll have a play over the weekend to see if I can get the firewall on
> and Slim Server to work as well.

Does your Windows Home Server face the outside world, or is it only
accessible from your home network?  If the latter, then why in the
world are your running a firewall?

Software firewalls are a pain in the ass, no matter what you're doing. 
They're mainly designed to keep _you_ from having an infected zombie
machine that goes out and tries to infect other machines on the
Ineternet.  Very altruistic, but unless you're in the habbit of letting
your machines get compromised through stupid behavior, why ever would
you think you needed to run such software?

If you're allowing the machine to be accessed from the outside, then a
good hardware firewall in front of the machine will do all the port
filtering that you could ever want.


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JJZolx

Jim
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