On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:27:37AM -0500, Pete Wason wrote:
I'm running RH8.0 on my server. a. I'm not sure if I should continue to use RH as support has expired, and I can't affort their enterprise version.
There are a couple alternatives here: http://fedora.redhat.com/ (Fedora Core is replacing Red Hat Linux) http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ (supporting EOL Red Hat/Fedora Core distros) http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ (rebuilt from Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
1. Is it normal that my http port should be getting hit hundreds of times a day with intrusion attacks aimed at an NT server? Strange days indeed...
Yes. Make sure you apache is kept up to date with security patches.
2. I also am constantly bombarded with hundreds of virus-infected spam messages; right now I'm using a mailserver in NJ -- when I get mine set up, I'll switch.
Yup.
3. I find it strange and somewhat disturbing that if I have my laptop booted to the logon screen, I can connect to its shares via samba - without a password! Is this normal (read: goofy) windows security?
If the shares are set for guest access, yes. Or, if you have not set an administrator password. Or if your username/password on the client is the same as the username/password on the server, Windows will use the cached credentials.