I'm running RH7 and a Win 2K machine connected together with my router which provides my ADSL connection.

I can ping both machines, connect to the internet through the router with both machines, and have even set up a web server on the Linux box, but my question is as follows:

When sharing files with samba, does this not pose a security risk as both machines are visible on the Internet.
Both machines are set to obtain their IP addresses from the router which seems to work perfectly, but should I not perhaps have 2 NIC's in each machine, one used specificly to file share through samba etc and the other connected to the router for Internet connectivity?

All comments and feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Harry

Its really about how much do you trust the firewall on the router? Are they browseable on the Net. Probably not, but I wouldn't trust the windows box as far as I could throw it. They have Class C 192.168.esque addresses which the router is masking for. If someone went to the trouble of cracking the firewall and spoofing an internal IP, then, maybe, they can browse.

Sorry, that's just my ill informed first take on that.

Cheers,

Finegan