Topic: E-Smith Share Security

[WXP]

Hey,

I've been using E-Smith for 4 months now and am happy with it.

I am thinking about one point.

When I downloaded and tested SmoothWall, I wrote to the developpers that they should add samba to share files.
They told me smoothwall is only a firewall.. ok ok
but l8er they told me that it isnt that secure to put important files on the server we use to get connected to internet.

Now, I would like to know two things :

 - From the developers : Do you think like the smoothwall's developer or do you think it's secure ?
 - From the users : Did someone got hacked or something ?

I do not really care if I lose my mp3's but my father has his files on my server and I want to be sure they are in a safe place.

Thank you very much for this great product !

ps: Didnt had time to upgrade it to SME v5 but I will soon

[Greg Zartman]

I think this is the standard response that you would get from jsut about any paranoid network securities person. Basically, what they are saying is that to be secure, you need to have the firewall and "other" server functions on two seperate pieces of hardware.  

If you were in a large corporate environment or were dealing with ultra-sensitive data, then I'd agree with this.  You'd go out and buy yourself a $10,000 cisco firewall and put your LAN behind that.

For the small business and/or home user, the firewalling built into Linux is more than enough to ward off most malicious atacks.  I wouldn't worry too much about getting your files "hacked" into.  It's pretty rare to have such a thing happen.


Greg

[WXP]

OK Thanx dude !

[Hex]

To be safe and still be cheap you can just get a $100 Linksys router and use it to do the routeing and fire wall functions and then just use E-smith as your server. That is the way I have it set up and it has worked great and I have had no problems with hackers.