Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-03-28 at 19:30 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
A hacker could log into the router (telnet),
How can you even think about security if your router has public telnet access?
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.
Not quite. SuSEfirewall2 protects the machine it is running on from the network.
Still two networks involved - your machine has it's own network (127.0.0.0/8). /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org