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From: "Geo." 

Easy, routers do not route local traffic out to the net so all you do is set
your software firewalls to allow all local network traffic and it should just
work.

Geo.

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4596edcd$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I have a WinXP laptop that has just one ethernet jack.  I want to do file
>sharing between the laptop and my Linux boxes. I'm wondering whether it is
>too risky to have that laptop ethernet jack used for both internet access
>and local access at the same time.
>
> These computers all plug into the same Netgear ProSafe VPN firewall. My
> impression is that their local traffic won't go out on the internet.
> Don't all the boxes route their packets first to the hub's gateway address
> if they want to go out onto the public internet?
>
> I also have a software firewall on the WinXP box. Do I need to lower that
> firewall in order to do network neighborhood file sharing?  I see in the
> Windows Firewall settings in the Exceptions tab I have checked "File and
> Printers".
>
> Also, if one wants to run SAMBA on a Linux box does that make the Linux
> box show up in Network Neighborhood or do I have to find it in a different
> way?

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