[plug] Re: questions about Mandrake9.0

[Craig Ringer]

> At no stage do I want the Windows box to be connected to the Internet on its own without a firewall,

Good plan. Never trust an MS machine to be exposed to the 'net.

> hence the idea of using the Linux machine as a server. Well, that`s the idea. How good idea it is - that is really for others to judge at this stage for I know very little about it. 
> However, that would be the background of the question I asked yesterday: During the installation process which of the following options do I select:
> 
> Web/FTP
> Mail/Groupware/News
> Database
> Firewall/Router
> DND/NIS
> Network Computer Server
> 
> Something else came to my mind: Do I need a server at all for what I am trying to do? Does the 'Workstation" option of Mandrake Linux9.0 provide for a firewall if there is another computer networked to it?
> I would not mind to get some enlightenment on that one either.

I seem to remember that the difference with Mandrake isn't huge anyway, 
mostly a matter of which packages are installed by default.

Also, if my memory serves me right (I'm a debian guy, haven't used 
mandrake for ages), Mandrake has a friendly graphical "internet sharing" 
configuration tool that'll do what you want, plus some additional 
firewalling utilities. Its all configured after the install.


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