[ale] Home Networking Opinions Please

[Josh Freeman]

Of course. At first we had a decrepit machine as a firewall, then we
ended up gettig a linksys router / firewall and putting that between us
and our DSL connection.


On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:35, Geoffrey wrote:
> All sitting behind your firewall right?  I don't believe you want to be 
> running Samba or NFS for that matter on a machine that also has an 
> internet connection.
> 
> Josh Freeman wrote:
> > When  I did something like this in my college apartment, we had one
> > linux machine set up as a Samba PDC, NIS master, and NFS server. If you
> > logged into a linux machine on the network, the /home partition on the
> > server would NFS mount onto the local machine. If you logged into a
> > Windows machine, your home directory would then mount via samba as a
> > drive on the Windows box. I then set up a printer on the file server and
> > connected every machine to that printer. Worked great for the three of
> > us living there at the time.
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
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> Think about it...
> 
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Josh Freeman
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