[K12OSN] OT: need help configuring web server on Ubuntu Server to allow file uploads

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 09:25 -0400, David Whitmer wrote:

> Regarding the Samba suggestion... the web server I'm working with here
> is accessible from the public Internet, though it is behind a separate
> firewall.  If I were to setup Samba on it, even if it were configured
> to only be accessible from the internal LAN, might I then be exposing
> the server to security issues from the Internet?
> 
> Anyway, thanks again everyone!
> 
> David Whitmer


You can set Samba to allow access only from IP addresses than are within
your LAN. The web server is set to allow access from anything. There is
(or had better be! :) a firewall between your LAN and the web server.
That firewall is allowing web traffic to be transmitted to the web
server. It should be configured to NOT allow traffic to come into the
LAN destined for ANY Windows ports.

So the short answer is, yes - you can have safely have the Samba server
in your LAN on the same machine as the web server.
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