[KLUG Members] Re: Nautilus in RH 7.3 and Samba shares...revisited... -- certs, IPCop ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Tahnesha Pinckney <tep@hanify.com>:
> That's very true...although, if you ask me, I would have preferred
> setting up a Novell/Unix network instead of a Windows/Unix one.  But,
> because my position requires me to become an MSCE I decided on the
> latter.... :(

I don't think much of the "computer-administered" certifications.  But even I've
had to "give in" this past summer due to by unemployment (see the URL in my sig
for more).  I've been unable to persue them due to my 24x7x365 "on-call"
schedule as of late.

I was going to take the RHCE next, which is lab-based/peer-reviewed -- so it's
actually a "respected" certification.  But you have to travel to a RedHat
training facility (for obvious reasons), which makes it difficult for me.  I'm
still working out a time with my supervisor.

I'm considering the CompTIA Security+ which just came out (nothing great, but
some egghead manager might think otherwise).  And I'm already scheduled to take
the first three (of the MSCA portion) around turn of the year, and will get my
MCSE eventually sometime in 2003Q1.

> Well, if you have both Windows and UNIX clients, they you'll need to
> learn both.

Correct.

> No, although when I get a cable modem (which might be sooner rather
> than later despite how heart-wrenching it will be for me), this will
> have to be taken into consideration.

Of course.  It's "always on."  ;-P

> I have a PII 200MHZ, 94MB slim-line desktop PC at home doing nothing
> but collecting dust.

A perfect candidate!

> And I have an extra copy of RH 7.2 as well.

You don't need a Linux distro.  IPCop is its own, self-installing Linux distro.
 It's a small CD image download, only ~25MB.  You don't even need a very big
hard drive (85MB+ last time I checked).

> I guess I could use that instead of buying a hardware firewall since
> they can run for quite a bit of $$.

Well, even the low-end, limited ones (DLink, Linksys, etc...) cost ~$100-200. 
The "mid-range" ones from SonicWall (VxWorks-based) and WatchGuard (Linux-based)
are $500-5,000.

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