So after completing my iptables exercise, I proceeded to work on configuring SAMBA, only to find that it was already configured how I wanted. I had forgotten that shortly after I finished installing Gentoo, I went ahead and used this Gentoo wiki article as well as this quick Gentoo how-to . I really only need a simple share between my Vista machine and my Gentoo box, as I don't have any printers installed on the gentoo machine, and I don't need granular permissions for the share as it within my LAN.
One thing I did not do was learn how to effectively use CIFS and smbclient, so I'll have to familiarize myself with both and figure out how to mount and search samba shares.
On another note, I spoke with our web designer at work, and he shared with me that I should check out Inkscape, a free/open source vector graphics editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator. I really do need to familiarize myself with software such as this, as when it comes to web design, I am lacking most in creating and manipulating images.
He also pointed me to click2try.com, a pretty cool site with a bunch of hosted VMs, allowing users to try open source software for free, without having to install anything on the user's machine.
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