From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 13:20:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC9037B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:20:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from there [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A61340B0136; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:20:22 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: chip To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Opinions wanted - dealing with file sharing in AOL IM Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:20:13 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200201211320107.SM00412@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One of my sons asked me today, about opening a port on the firewall so he= and=20 some friends from school can share files. I'm a bit leary of opening a po= rt=20 on the firewall. I know my freebsd boxes will be safe from windoze viruse= s by=20 there are also 4 windoze boxes on my network. I was thinking maybe openin= g a=20 high number port, say over 50000 or whatever (at least then it would be=20 relatively safe from casual port scanners). Or is this 'stinkin thinkin'? I suggested setting up an ftp site and he could give his friends password= s,=20 but he would rather just use the IM sharing feature. I've never used, so = I'm=20 not familiar with it.=20 How have you guys dealt with this? --=20 Chip <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patc= h to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message