[JA] Juno Server
- From: "ekblaw@xxxxxxxxxxx" <ekblaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:22:35 GMT
Barbara, your firewall program (ZoneAlarm, if I recall correctly) will normally
not allow any data to come from the Internet into your computer unless it is a
response to a session that you initiated from a program that you authorized for
Internet access. For example, you have allowed Juno to access the Internet, so
you when you tell Juno to get your new mail, a session is initiated, and
ZoneAlarm knows that it should be expecting a response from Juno so it allows
your messages to pass through without any additional prompting.
Now, if Juno was going to act in a "server" mode, it would have to be able to
accept sessions coming from the Internet without you initiating the session.
This obviously reduces the level of protection that your firewall would
normally provide, so you only want to enable server mode for programs that
really need it. One example of this kind of program is NIPrint, which allows
you to run a "print server" on your computer so that other computers on the
Internet (or your local LAN) can send print jobs to your local printer (which
is probably connected to either a parallel port or a USB port).
Juno does not need to act as a server, so you do not want to allow it to act as
a server. Click on the "Remember this decision" box and then click on the "NO"
button the next time ZoneAlarm prompts you (or go to the ZoneAlarm control
panel and put the big red "X"s in the server column for Juno under Program
Control, Programs tab).
Rick Ekblaw
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