My DSL modem is a NAT router/firewall. Thanks for all the tips. I hope to have everything up and running by Sunday. On 2/3/06, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm with Nate. Assuming that your DSL modem is a NAT Router/Firewall > type device, things should be fine. In your internal network you then > don't have to worry too much about security, unless you're going to > let strangers wander in and plug their device into your switch. This > is the simple solution you're looking for. > > scp/sftp will only need minimal setup and is always a good way to go. > I once played with snfs, but that's a bit more complicated. > > If both machines will be getting a public IP address, you'll want to > be running some sort of firewall on both machines. As they would both > be on the Internet, you would want to stick with secure protocols like > ssh/sftp/scp, or establish a VPN between your computers. (Open VPN or > Hamachi would do the trick http://www.hamachi.cc/). Going down this > route however would not be the simple solution that you're looking > for. > > -- > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us > SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; > 0 rows returned > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- http://ThreeWayNews.blogspot.com Your source. For everything. Really. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060203/80b5aab0/attachment.htm