[WinMac] Re: Win & Mac sharing a cable modem together
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 04 Feb 2000 00:56:21 -0500
Well, you actually gave out a link that has part of the answer:
PortDetective.Com!
More importantly, PortDetective quickly exposes security holes, most
notably ports 137, 138, & 139, which are the NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT)
ports. NetBIOS attacks are commonly used by hackers to break into windows
machines, and are enabled by default even for NT only (or Mac & NT only)
LAN's.
Hope this helps!
Dan
At 12:00 PM 2/4/00 +0900, you wrote:
>Does anyone have experience hooking up multiple Windows and Mac machines to
>one cable modem? I have two Macs and three Windows machines that I would
>like to hook up this way. Since I am basically using them for testing Web
>content on different operating systems we are looking at Win95/98/NT
>Workstation/Server, MacOS various flavours in English and Japanese. (Yes, I
>get confused)..
>
>Right now I have one Mac on a cable modem and am using an ISDN TA with a
>built in LAN to connect the other machines, using DAVE for the Macs to
>connect with the Win boxes. My cable connection is faster and cheaper so I
>want to use that for most of my connections instead of the ISDN.
>
>I am thinking that I should choose one of my machines (probably a wintel
>box) as a gateway. Use one NIC for the cable modem and another for the LAN
>which will connect together the Macs and other Windows machines. I have
>briefly looked at IPNetRouter for the Mac, Sygate (NAT), Internet Gateway
>6.0 (NAT), Wingate and WinProxy for Windows.
>(http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_lans.shtml)
>
>I want to complicate matters by trying to use TZO to enable a server on my
>network to deliver content over the Web for testing and demonstrations using
>PHP and Cold Fusion. ( => TZO Service provides you with an unchanging domain
>name (a name like YOURNAME.COM) so that someone else can connect to your
>computer through your domain name, despite the fact that your computer's IP
>address changes each time you connect to your ISP. http://www.tzo.com/). I
>am not expecting to host a Web site with millions of hits this way. This set
>up is a whole lot cheaper than any other alternative I have come across.
>Dedicated hosting and lines are out of my budget range at the moment.
>
>While I have been developing Web content at work for years with other people
>maintaining the servers, I have never set up anything like this at home
>before. I wonder what is the best approach? Should the server software be
>installed on the gateway machine?
>
>Has anyone used Wingate and WinProxy with a cable modem? Would it be better
>to get M$ Proxy Server 1.0? Has anyone tried this kind of combination using
>a cable modem to supply a Mac/Win LAN with Internet connections and serve
>Web content using a service like TZO simultaneously? I would greatly
>appreciate and hints, advice or discussion on this subject.
>
>Sue McNab
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