two LAN questions

[David Hart]

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 20:15, AA wrote:
> Hello all, I want to ask for advice on my LAN.
> I finally got all of my samba issues sorted out, and
> so now I have a second pc set up running Breezy that I
> am only using as storage space via samba.  My first
> question is how do I set it up so that computer is
> available on the network for me to access it through
> the samba server and vnc for remote desktop, but it is
> not connected to the internet?

Firewall it off at the gateway or on the box itself?

Why are you worried about this machine in particular?

> The second question is about repositories.  I want to
> backup all of the stuff that I would need to reinstall
> both of these boxes, (I guess that would just be the
> apt cache?), and store it all on the samba computer so
> that I could then use that location as a sort of local
> repository.  I only want to do this so that, if in the
> future I need to reinstall for any reason, or I decide
> to add another computer, I will have a repository on
> that machine that already contains all of the stuff I
> am going to want to use.  Is this possible?

I use apt-proxy.  Works a treat.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>