Hello Henrik,

Monday, April 19, 2004, 2:50:47 PM, you wrote:

> I've read: "A Flexible Approach to Thin Client Removable Media
> Management" by Paul Whittaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from the
> Contrib area of the ltsp web pages.

> The fundamental clue with this solution is: "automount daemon (with
> sufficient components to do local device mounts only) "glued" to a
> WU-FTP daemon"

> Because the server is directly connected to the Internet (no
> firewall), I'm a little bit paranoid about installing server daemons
> on the server. How can I have it to be automatically patched when it
> is discovered holes in it? or can i set it up in a way that it only
> talks to the thin clients?

It usually can, set it to "Listen" only on the internal IP address.
This is true for many daemons.

> Firewall is the first thing I can think of as a solution, but the
> central IT department are not to happy about us setting up firewalls
> on our servers.

Get yourself some $LART tools. Then show them how fast they can run if
someone with $GUN is after them.

> Anybody who have any comments/ suggestions?

Install a firewall. If you don't want a separate computer to do this,
at least install iptables and BLOCK every incoming connection except
perhaps ssh for remote management. Read the firewall documents on
www.tldp.org - that should help you start.

> - Henrik

Best regards,
 Anselm                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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