Re: Newbie help!! NFS/CUPS/Iptables

From: Allen McIntosh (mcintosh_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 03:24:13 GMT

In article <bl1oce$cmd$1@reader1.tiscali.nl>,
Lady-M <sorry-no-email@newsgroups.com> wrote:
>This is the situation: I have installed one computer server and two as
>workstations (might become more in the future). On all computers Redhat 9 is
>installed (of course two times workstation and one time server).

Are all three exposed to the outside world, or are they already behind
some sort of firewall? (Not that being behind a firewall at a university
is any guarantee of security...) It would help to know a little more
about your general setup - how things are connected to the outside
world, what sort of firewalling is turned on, etc.

>I even managed to get NFS working... but only when I de-activated Iptables.
>But I would like to have a firewall up and running with full powers.

If you need a firewall, you will have to poke a hole in it for NFS.
You can and should do this selectively of course.

>I have been searching for solutions with Google (what would I do without
>it?) but can't seem to find something that's helpful to me.

There have been discussions of similar problems in these newsgroups
recently, but it seems that Google doesn't archive them anymore.

>a) what it means (no help from any source)

It's actually all there in "man iptables", though it may seem like
trying to understand how a submarine works by reading the blueprints...

There is actually some Dutch documentation on www.netfilter.org.
Also assorted tutorials.

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