Hi Ruck,

Don't put your fileserver and printserver on your firewall.  Bad
combination.

Beg for some old 486 and make that your firewall.  Lock it down (plnty
o' material on that topic, including http://georgetoft.com/linux).  Put
the K6 box serving files and printing.  Lay out a plan on what you want,
and what you have to do to get there, then focus on each thing until you
accomplish your plan.

Feel free to ask questions here.

Shameless plug: My site contains step-by-step instructions on how to
build the firewall and secure it.  I just survived a week-long hack
attack, so I know it's good.

George


christian ruckdaschel wrote:
> 
> Greetings.  Sorry about the HTML the first time -- I didn't even think about
> it.
> 
> I've got a fresh install of RedHat 8.0 on a k6-2 400 box w/288MB ram.  I'm a
> new guy to Linux, but I'm not afraid to "get my hands dirty."
> 
> What I want to do is set this box up as a file server/firewall/printserver
> for my home network.  The rest of the machines will be running WinXP Pro.
> My internet connection is through Cox.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this going (books, message
> threads, how-to's, websites, etc.)?  I've been wanting to learn about Linux
> for years now, and I think this would be a good way to do it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Ruck
> 
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