He connects via his router(NAT) by all pcs from what he wrote he had
firewalling running on individual PCs (RH, Fedora installs this by
default), and he dropped these (not the NAT/router) in debugging. I
think I did pay attention.
He is also clearly from the windows world and have very little knowhow
of unixes. I dont like to frighten novices with "thou shall must
follow tight security" let them do it, have them quick wins, deepen
their knoweledge step by step so they understand when and why to use
what.
My rule is a person should not be presented more info at a time than
what they can absorb and use with confidence. This amount differs from
people to people. I like to give confidence and understanding. He did
not even had a clue how to share files between unixes besides samba.
Yes, nfs is a way, but before I talk about the security of NFS on a
local home network of three PCs behinde a personal router/firewall I
try to find out what does he really needs. And as above I noted kde
with the kioslaves (fish://) could be just what he needs.
And you are right, people do silly things.
Z
On 7/1/05, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 14:01, Zoltan Patay wrote:
> > For god's sake he has 3 computers at home he wants to share file in
> > between!!!
> >
> > This is not like a campus network or corporate network!
> >
> > Who is going to gain unauthorized access exploiting an unsecured NFS
> > setup? His mom/wife/kids? You are unnecessarly discouraging somebody
> > who is obviously very green here. Please read what the problem is he
> > is trying to share.
>
> Depending on how he does the setup it could be the world. So one should pay
> attention to some of these small details which can become a problem. I know
> most people don't give a hoot. But what you don't know can often hurt you.
>
> Maybe you missed the point where he said he dropped the firewall?
>
> People do silly things.
> --
>
> Steve Szmidt
>
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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