On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:34:57PM -1000, Glen wrote: > I am Glen, a system administrator at UHM, College of Education.
Welcome. > My concern is security; I would like to know how to set up > firewall to avoid hacing to > protect our data. In addition to restricting the IPs within smb.conf, allow lock it down in your iptables configuration. > I still do not have fluency on linux environment. I know > basic shell operation, but am not fammiller with system > configuration. I relay on Webmin and Mandrake Control Center. Restrict access to the administrative interfaces as well, within webmin and iptables. > Another question is how to set up server to access by domain > name. > > Our department has domain "coe.hawaii.edu" and I named the > server to "foo" by changing /etc/hosts file and give it > static IP, but I cannot access to the server by entering > "foo.coe.Hawaii.edu". Please let me know what I need to know. You may have the coe.hawaii.edu subdomain assigned to you for use, but not to administer the zone. At least, according to `dig coe.hawaii.edu ns`, so you will need to work with ITS. You should talk to ITS about what services they offer. At the very least, you should be put on a mailing list for UH related notices. -Vince
