From: Randall Parker 

Joe,

At the moment the Linux box has a single ethernet card connected to a
firewall (Netgear ProSafe 802.11g Wireless VPN Firewall model FVG318 -
which I also just installed). My laptop is also connected to that firewall.

Am I correct in assuming the firewall box lets all devices connected to it
to pass traffic between each other? That the firewall only blocks traffic
coming from the outside?

Also, my Linux box gets an IP address from the firewall I think. I do not
think I assigned one. But I see this at that web page you provided a link
to:

First, you must allow the Linux server full rights and access to the
Windows workgroup and local domain.   That means that either in your
Active Server environment you need to reserve an IP address for the Linux
server, or you simply need to ensure a hard coded IP address is given to
the Linux server.   The server must have a reserved IP address
whether you deliver it via DHCP or statically assign it in the DNS. This
also means that you need to ALLOW SMB DAEMON to operate. You can ensure
your system security does this by editing your Firewall setup or using
system-config-securitylevel .


So can I assign an additional IP address to it for use only when doing
Windows networking protocols?

My constraint: The laptop has only one ethernet port. I want it to get to
the internet on that port but also to do local file access to the Linux
server on that port. Can I do this?

Joe Hunt wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:28:40 -0700, Randall Parker
>

> wrote:
>
> 
>
>> 7) I want to configure Samba and make it run on start-up. I think I have
>> it on the machine. Do not know what next step to take. Go where to put
>> it in a start-up script? Or is there a services/daemon manager?
>
> I don't use Fedora, but the following link might help.
>
> http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml
>
> In particular, step 3 describes, using the gui, what you need to do to
> have it start on system startup .  And, it says that to manually start
> samba, you need to give this command
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
>
> I use Slackware, and it's startup process is different from Redhat
> derived distributions.  It has a directory /etc/rc.d and any script in
> that directory which is executable will be run on startup.  So, for
> example, in Slackware, samba is not started automatically, but there
> is a startup script in that directory which is not executable.  Giving
> the command
>
> chmod +x rc.samba
>
> will cause samba to start automatically upon system startup.  Perhaps
> Fedora and other Red Hat distributions use a similar concept.
>
> Samba is configured entirely with a text file named smb.conf which in
> Slackware is located in /etc/samba
>
> The above article describes configuring samba using gui tools in
> Fedora.
>

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