Ok, thanks for the advice I will do so. Jose Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 23 April 2003 16:31, Jose Sanchez wrote:
Hi, I have also a SUSE 8.1 with a samba server on the net, and I haven't configure a firewall, what should I activate on the firewall with YAST. I am very new in this stuff so I better prevent now before someone damages all my work.
Well, if you just go through the setup of the firewall in YaST and *not* select any ports, it will pretty much block everything. After that, all you have to do is make sure the firewall is actually running. Check with rcSuSEfirewall2 status. Run rcSuSEfirewall2 start if it isn't.
If you are running servers that you absolutely must have on the Internet, make sure you understand the security implications of each before you do. Running servers is easy. Running them securely takes work. I'm very far from a security expert, but there is one piece of advice that I think noone will dispute. Study *before* doing.