Linux

When you allow Samba access to your SuSE 10.1 machine by using the YaST firewall setup tool, three changes are made to /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2:

1. FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="" is changed into FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="microsoft-ds netbios-ssn"
2. FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="" is changed into FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="netbios-dgm netbios-ns"
3. FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_EXT="" is changed into FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_EXT="netbios-ns netbios-dgm"

The respective portnumbers for the serveices are:

I installed an OpenVPN service on our server. The default setup worked right out of the box. However, I wanted to use a VPN client to perform offsite backups of the computers in our LAN (using the backuppc software). First I installed OpenVPN clients on all of the LAN computers to be backed up, but OpenVPN on MacOS X seems to be a bit unreliable. Therefore I wanted to setup the VPN server to forward requests to our LAN network. The following changes were necessary:

My new notebook (or rather deskbook) is the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D1840W. I installed it as dual-boot Windows XP/Suse Linux 9 with the following partitioning: