Help with windows printing and networking behind firewall...

[Iron_DragonLord]

Okay, my network is a bit odd.

Here's how it goes, my family all uses windows XP, and me and my server are on Gentoo. my server is acting as a gateway to the main network, so I'm in a sub-sub like network.

Here is a poorely drawn diagram I made:

http://idl.kicks-ass.net:81/images/my_network.gif

I got IPTABLES set up on my server (so I can use the internet of course), and the server is set as DMZ host from the WRT54G router, since LinkSys only gives me 10 port forwards, this way I get 65535.

Anyway, I'm wondering four things:

1) I need to print stuff, but the printer is connted to PC 1, which uses Windows XP. I've not a clue how to set this up, especially through the server.

2) I'd like to read the shares of my families PC, and possibly write, too, but that's not as important. I'd prefer the sharing to be one way, I don't want them to touch me.

3) I'd like to mount some areas from the server to this PC, so I can edit my website either without needing to use FTP or anything. I don't know how to do that either. I'm willing to read guides though.

4) I want to set up the router to not respond at all and drop any packets to closed ports. I used the Router-HOWTO guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml) and tried changing the DROP part for 0:1023 to 0:65535, but that even dropped incomming packets I was supposed to receive, so that didn't work very well.

Thanks.

[mcdermr]

1. I've not tried to print to a Windows machine before. I do know that Cups is capable of sending the stuff to a Windows shared printer. I think you need Samba installed and configured. I don't have any Windows computers at work that have a local printer; they are all networked printers, so I can't readily test it.

2. Use Samba. I can read the shared folders on the windows boxes and I have set up a share on my laptop(running Gentoo) that i can access from any Windows box on the network. I use KDE which makes it VERY easy to view samba shares. There is a "LAN Browser" in the side bar of the file browser. Once set up with Samba, it is easier to use than the Windows Netowrk Neighborhood crap. Just make sure that your Gentoo box is on the same network as the windows machines (i.e. They all are 192.168.1.xx)

3. The internal webserver that I run at work (also runs Gentoo) has ssh on it and KDE has a simple way to use the filesystem as if it was mouted on my laptop. Simply type:

[Iron_DragonLord]

Wow, the sftp:// thing works awesomely. Thanks! It will help a lot.

So that checks that off the list.