On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:54, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > The last thing that I want to do is introduce a THRID computer to > this. I'm not about to go out and invest in a router, so what would be > the best way to go about doing this with the equiptment that I have? > Can this be done with Samba? I'm about to go archive-diving now, but > if anyone has any advise they'd be willing to share, I'm all ears. Er, > well, eyes,.... In that case you need to read up on iptables and search out one of the how to documents on how to setup IP forwarding and NAT through your linux system. Samba won't get you there. You can use samba to share resources between the two systems but not for what you first asked about. Keep in mind that since you will be using your main linux system not only as your firewall but as a workstation you will have to watch carefully which services you have enabled and exposed to the Internet. Once you have your firewall in place you should periodically scan it from the Internet to make sure your iptables rules are working as expected and that you have not inadvertently opened up a hole that you don't know about. You can use scanners at sites like http://www.grc.com, he has the shieldsup scanner that is pretty good. Also you will have to have our linux box on line in order for your windows system to get Internet access. If you allow ssh from the Internet make sure you disable root from login in via ssh and use strong passwords on all accounts on your system. And keep and eye on your log files and read roots email every day. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener
