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From: Randall Parker 

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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