* Beastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020513 06:10]: > I've just installed new 8.2 from Linux Format DVD. > > My machine is a Pentium II 350MHz that I would like to install as > Firewall/Router DNS Server SMB server (File Server for networked > Windows machines) Print Server.
You probably know this, but if security is a concern, it would be much better to have one old linux computer that does nothing but act as firewall. It is more difficult to set up good security with things like Samba and NFS running on the firewall machine. However ... > I used to have another machine running Windows 2000 Server that > served the above purposes, the problem was that the machine was > constantly under attack and in the end was defeated and became > unusable. How can anyone concerned about security take seriously an operating system (W2K) that by default hides known file extensions from users, and stuffs Outlook down your throat ;-) > I hope that by installing Linux, I could get away with some of the > problems I was facing. You can. > After installing 8.2 I setup DNS and Firewall, these work fine. But > not Samba, I can see the Samba server when browse Network > Neighbourhood only when I click to open this server the error was > "Network path not found". I spent most of the weekend fighting with the same problem. I found that the bastille-firewall was interfering with Samba, so I disabled it and loaded firestarter. Same thing. Samba worked fine if I disabled either firewall. I think it has to do with it blocking netbios TCP. Anyway, I took a more manual approach and used one of the sample firewalls from the iptables-HOWTO and it works fine. Now my Mandrake 8.2 server tolerates my Win2K workstation. > I tried to set system security to lower level, thinking that these > might be the problem but to no avail. Not a bad guess, though. > What can I do now ? I know this seems very difficult, but one illusion we have to overcome is that networking can be simple. As soon as you connect one computer to the Internet, you have full-blown sysadmin problems on your hands. For example: Are you using encrypted passwords? Have you looked at the Using Samba book that comes with Samba? Pretty well written, but it's still complicated as heck. Do you have a fixed IP number (connecting to the outside) or using DHCP from an ISP? Are your internal (probably private) IP numbers, your netmasks, your netbios names, your domain/workgroup names all correct? There are so many different configurations that it is a major problem to get all this working properly, especially with Microsoft trying to make it harder, not easier. Perhaps you could provide more details, and then maybe one of us could help you build a firewall that works with your situation. It would be nice if it worked "out of the box" but that just isn't going to happen, at least in my experience. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML
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