configuration advice needed

Set up a Server 2003 as a stand alone on our home
network. Network has a DLink broadband router but I am
running static IP's for the three systems connected. I
wanted to connect the Server but found my AV/Firewall
software will not run on Server and enabling the built-in
firewall is preventing me from doing anything with the
server from the other systems. I did not want to setup
the server as a DHCP ... just want it connected to the
router for internet, and allow the home net to access it
for serving files and running a local copy of a website.

Advice as to how I can accomplish this with some degree of
security?

Thanks for any help.

Bob V.

Security is such a "wide & broad" issue it is about impossible to answer
that. If this server has only one NIC and is there only for the purpose of
serving the workstations, then you don't need any kind of firewall "stuff"
at all on it. This would be the job of the Broadband Router to act as a
firewall and protect the network. All your machines are "hidden" behind that
router with the router being the only "visible" device to the Internet,
therefore the security burden rests on its shoulders.

If you want to do anything beyond that, then things will get much more
complicated and you will get 50 different suggestions from 40 different
people as the how you should do it. Generally the quality of the
suggestions are directly tied the the amount and quality of the details
about how you want this setup to be built, what it should do, and why.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Bob V." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:179a201c418ee$fdbef5d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Set up a Server 2003 as a stand alone on our home
> network. Network has a DLink broadband router but I am
> running static IP's for the three systems connected. I
> wanted to connect the Server but found my AV/Firewall
> software will not run on Server and enabling the built-in
> firewall is preventing me from doing anything with the
> server from the other systems. I did not want to setup
> the server as a DHCP ... just want it connected to the
> router for internet, and allow the home net to access it
> for serving files and running a local copy of a website.
>
> Advice as to how I can accomplish this with some degree of
> security?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Bob V.

The server needs to download service pacs etc, but other
than that, no need to on the net. Is there a way to
specify in the ICS (or other) allow full local
communications between specific IP ranges, but nothing
from outside of those? I could not see how to do this
with ICS.

Thanks for any help.

Bob V.

>-----Original Message-----
>Security is such a "wide & broad" issue it is about
impossible to answer
>that. If this server has only one NIC and is there only
for the purpose of
>serving the workstations, then you don't need any kind of
firewall "stuff"
>at all on it. This would be the job of the Broadband
Router to act as a
>firewall and protect the network. All your machines
are "hidden" behind that
>router with the router being the only "visible" device to
the Internet,
>therefore the security burden rests on its shoulders.
>
>If you want to do anything beyond that, then things will
get much more
>complicated and you will get 50 different suggestions
from 40 different
>people as the how you should do it. Generally the
quality of the
>suggestions are directly tied the the amount and quality
of the details
>about how you want this setup to be built, what it should
do, and why.
>
>--
>
>Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
>www.wandtv.com
>
>
>"Bob V." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:179a201c418ee$fdbef5d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Set up a Server 2003 as a stand alone on our home
>> network. Network has a DLink broadband router but I am
>> running static IP's for the three systems connected. I
>> wanted to connect the Server but found my AV/Firewall
>> software will not run on Server and enabling the built-
in
>> firewall is preventing me from doing anything with the
>> server from the other systems. I did not want to setup
>> the server as a DHCP ... just want it connected to the
>> router for internet, and allow the home net to access it
>> for serving files and running a local copy of a website.
>>
>> Advice as to how I can accomplish this with some degree
of
>> security?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Bob V.
>
>
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>