From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 18: 8:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE1E37B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nukemhigh (hybrid-024-221-117-152.phoenix.speedchoice.com [24.221.117.152]) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00306 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:08:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009130108.SAA00306@harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Sender: egravel@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:09:01 -0700 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Emmanuel Gravel Subject: Re: sharing internet In-Reply-To: <00091121561103.00251@butthead.walker> References: <200009120336.UAA09120@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <200009120336.UAA09120@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Agreed. However, I don't think Samba is necessary for the original intention of the installer, if I understood it correctly. I think he mostly wanted to share the internet connection. I don't think file sharing between Win98 and FreeBSD was mentionned. That's why I said "only install what you need" :) At 09:53 PM 9/11/00 -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: >Youre right on a comercial envronment. On a home environment I dont >think it is going to be a problem. If your only going to use a packet >filtering firewall anyway you could always block the smb protocol >altogether, If your that worried about it. > >On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: >#I'm not sure it's that good an idea to run samba on his firewall. FTP can >#do pretty much the same thing and doesn't expose his systems as much. >#He can always share files between the Windows boxen behind his firewall. >#Plus, he doesn't need samba in there to share his connection with the >#rest of his network, so... ># >#You know how the saying goes, only run what you need :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message