[Nottingham] Re: Linux in Church Office anxiety state

[Peter Stokes]

>
>Subject: [Nottingham] Re: Linux in Church Office anxiety state
>   From: James Gibbon <jg at jamesgibbon.com>
>   Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 00:12:11 +0100
>     To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>
>On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:31:33 +0100
>Michael Leuty <mike at leuty.net> wrote:
> 
>> O ye of little faith...
>>
>
>That's me (well, 'no faith' actually)
>
>> I plan to install Fedora Core 2 on the three PCs in the network. The 
>> network has a simple hub. The router for our ADSL internet connection 
>> has a DHCP server. My problem is firewalls. If I turn on the Fedora 
>> firewall in each PC, will it still be possible to share printers and 
>> files between the three PCs?
>> 
>
>Yes, but I would establish a single firewall to protect all three PCs
>if I were you - much easier and more logical to manage.
>

You could use a combined ADSL ethernet router/firewall to achieve this or use separate unit for the firewall.

Peter