Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:56:35PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:14:37PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > > This may a bit off topic, but I am talking about a debian base network, and > > I sense that many of the people on this list have admin expertise. > > > > I have

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080207 21:42]: > > You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your > firewall/router (you DO have a firewall, don't you?), and copy client > software to that machine, for access by your clients. > > I don't have a firewall software, but i have

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-07 Thread ChadDavis
> You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your > firewall/router (you DO have a firewall, don't you?), and copy client > software to that machine, for access by your clients. > I don't have a firewall software, but i have the DSL router and nothing comes through unless i port forward.

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ChadDavis wrote: I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the process realized I'm not all that honed on security issues. My concern is this, when I set up something like filesharing, I'm just doing this for the efficiency of my two person software development compan

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:14:37PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > This may a bit off topic, but I am talking about a debian base network, and > I sense that many of the people on this list have admin expertise. > > I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the > process reali

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 5, 2008 1:09 PM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080205 14:21]: > ... > > I generally don't forward any ports from my DSL router into my local > > machines. On occasion I'll open 80 to let my clients do some > > testing. > > You could place an

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080205 14:21]: ... > I generally don't forward any ports from my DSL router into my local > machines. On occasion I'll open 80 to let my clients do some > testing. You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your firewall/router (you DO have a firewall,

security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread ChadDavis
This may a bit off topic, but I am talking about a debian base network, and I sense that many of the people on this list have admin expertise. I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the process realized I'm not all that honed on security issues. My concern is this, w