Re: Please help with my lack of understanding

If he's connecting from a Windows box (XP, Vista, 2000), it would be far more secure to shut down the FTP server and have him connect via VPN connection. Then he can copy the files to his PC via simple drag-and-drop. And you don't have the FTP server exposed to the Internet.

HTH
CL

"t.kinser" <t.kinser.31gnrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:t.kinser.31gnrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

No, this server is not running an ISA. This is supposed to be a cheap
quick solution with almost zero maintenance. The web server is a
highly unlikely, the ftp is already configured.

It's not a server in the true sense of a server, but a very low budget
solution. His router was dying, and it was a cheaper fix to drop a
second nic into a server I was in the process of setting up then
through in a new router into the package. The only thing the FTP serves
are backup files from a sql database so he can connect from home and
pull a copy to keep off site. It's a small local owned shop in a small
country town of which security isn't that big an issue. Their more
worried about data preservation and redundancy then being hacked.


Still. as I said, I'm a simple computer repair shop tech dragged into
this rather against my will. When I took the job I didn't realize how
big it would become. If the consensus really is that leaving the server
open is a mistake then I can try and alter what I've done so far. I was
just hoping to save myself some time by maybe going through three nics
instead of two switches, or one switch and a lot of cabling. In my
rushed education of SBS I understood it wanted to be the controller of
the domain, and the only one there. Which indicated to me that it would
act as the firewall, and appears to have that software already in place.


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