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"Todd, Chris" wrote:
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> I sent this question to the SAMBA mailing list, but have received no
> response. ;-( You folks seem more willing to answer newbie questions,
> though...hopefully these won't abuse your good will! ;-)
I find that linux.samba on usenet is a goo place to look for samba
quesitons.
>
> I have a 3 computer home network:
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> Linux firewall: 2.2.10 kernel (yes, I know I need to upgrade it to fix the
> strong IPChains rules bug), very basic IP Masq forwarding rules (no strong
> IPChains rules), two NICs (one connected to ADSL modem, other connected to
> an ethernet hub), and _ALL_ services disabled (telnet, ftp, r services, who,
> finger, etc.) except for Apache 1.3.6 with Jserv (no cgi stuff, though),
>
> one dual boot Linux/Win98 box, and
> aonther Win98 only box, both of which have NICs connected to the ethernet
> hub.
>
> I would like to be able to share files and a printer between the two windows
> boxes. From what I've read, this sounds like a job for Samba. My
> questions, however, are these:
>
> 1) If I have configured my firewall correctly/securely, can I forgo Samba
> and just enable file and print sharing on the Windows boxes? How secure is
> this?
If you're running two Windows boxes connected to the same network (on
the same hub, in your case), then your firewall doesn't even enter
into the equation
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> 2) How secure would it be to run the Samba server on the Linux firewall
> box? Wouldn't running Samba expose port 139 for possible attacks? Can this
> be easily secured by IPChains (say by creating a rule to deny all requests
> to port 139 not coming from the internal network)?
Even better than that, you could tell Samba to only use the NIC that's
connected to your ethernet hub, and it won't do anything at all on the
other interface.
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> 3) (This probably isn't directly related to Samba or IPMasq, but is
> relevant to my file sharing needs) Is it possible to set up the partitions
> on my dual boot box so that all partitions are always visible, regardless of
> which OS happens to be booted at the time? Would I need Samba for this, or
> do I need to alter something in my Linux/Windows configuration (fyi, I have
> Caldera OL2.3 with Partition Magic and Boot Magic...could I use PM or BM to
> allow all partitions to be viewed regardless of OS?).
I'm assuming that you're talking about your dual boot win98/linux box
here. If you store the data that you want shared on a windows type
partition, then yes. You'll need to configure samba in linux, but it
shouldn't be hard. Just make sure that you can mount your Win98
partitions under linux, then configure samba. Samba isn't hard to
configure, you just need to see a couple examples of smb.conf.
Greg
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