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Originally Posted by gernblan
I need to say something:
You're willing to spend gobs of time fighting all sorts of problems running the emu server on an OS that the entire world knows has more holes than swiss cheese, yet you won't just sit down and put up a linux box and have a secure server once and for all?
I submit that you're spending (read: wasting) a lot more time struggling with windows security (especially since it doesn't exist--if Microsoft can't even lock down their own OS, what makes you think you can?) whereas you could just invest the time to learn how to do it right on Linux and be done with it.
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Because then i'm just opening up more problems for myself. I'm not familiar with Linux, so if something doesn't work I won't know if it's because i didn't set something up right, or because it's part of eqemu, etc etc. I would be *wasting* more time as it is. Plus I really have no time to learn something new, I have too many "Gotta Learn this system" at work going on as it is.
Plus if this is an issue with ports eqemu uses, then it's going to affect linux as well. I've got my system locked down good, no one is going to be able to get into that doesn't use the 700* ports.
My first problem was that I didn't do this before putting the server online. I was too excited about having a server running that I had no anti-virus installed, I had ports open on my firewall that shouldn't have been (VNC for one since I don't have a monitor hooked up ..btw that is disabled so don't try), etc etc. My main worries were that I overlooked something, but now I know it's just part of eqemu and for some classic eq i can live with that.