[COLUG] Samba weirdness

[Rob Funk]

Bill Baker wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:26 -0500, Jim wrote:
> > Bill Baker wrote:
> > > The firewall isn't running on my Linux box.
> >
> > It's prudent to do so.
>
> Why?  I already have a separate firewall running on my network.

Which is better, if you choose between one or the other.
But both is even better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_Depth_%28computing%29

> Rob's solution seems to have fixed it for me.  Are you saying I still
> need to do more?

He's saying that once you have your machine better secured, you'll 
probably need to do some work to make sure the samba stuff still works.

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