Hey everyone, My broadband was just connected and I have rejoined the Internet age following my four-month stint as a lowly dialup user (with apologies to other lowly dialup users :-). My new place is thoroughly wired and I'm ready to assemble a home network. I was hoping to get some thoughts on the issue. Quick inventory: (1) desktop running Linux and (1) laptop with OS X and Wifi (1) 1-GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and loads of HD space (Linux) (1) Dual 650-MHz PIII with 512 MB RAM and 9-GB SCSI disk (Linux) (1) Linksys cable modem (1) Linksys router/firewall (1) Linksys WAP (plenty) network and video connections in each room My thought is that this rig will be a fun learning environment for me so I was planning on using the Athlon for a LAN file server and the PIII as a Web server for my personal Web site. The Linksys router has a dedicated DMZ port that I was planning to use unless someone knows of a good reason not to. I'm using the Athlon as an MP3 source with the SliMP3 MP3 decoder (http://slimdevices.com). This is a really cool product, btw. The SliMP3 streaming software creates a Web page on a high port that can be used to manage playlists and stream songs to various players. I thought of port forwarding to that Web page from the router and putting it behind a .htaccess protected Web page. I'd like to learn LDAP so I was planning to use it for authentication throughout my LAN and as an addressbook for my email apps. I would like to be able to get at the addressbook information from the Internet, but I don't want to expose my more sensitive LDAP parts to the world outside my LAN. Any suggestions? I don't want to allow access to the internal file server if I can help it, but if I need to, I want it to be as secure as reasonably possible. Any advice? -Tim -- Timothy D. Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA email: wilson at visi.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list