Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2009-03-26 at 19:33 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Presumably Samba runs on a private network, which the firewall is intended to protect from the public network. Sounds like a Firewall configuration issue most of all.
Often the internal network is connected to the outside by a router(*) provided by the ISP (perhaps with WiFi), and can't be considered secure:
In such a situation I think it is very likely that the router will be NAT'ing, which without any port-forwarding is actually a pretty safe setup.
thus the need for a firewall running on our computers, even on the "internal" network.
No, that is the wrong thinking. A firewall is of zero use unless it is in between two networks.
(*) My ISP hasn't provided a single update for my router for years.
Nor has mine, nor has the manufacturer. Despite bugs reported and locally fixed. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org