Re: samba

[staf wagemakers <lists@stafwag.f2s.com>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:21:02PM +0200, Maurice Verhagen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using samba on a server of mine. The machine is broadcasting once in a
> while. I want to disable broadcasting to one specific interface, since
> that interface is connected to the internet via a firewall / gateway
> machine. 
> 
> Is there a native samba way to set up bindings to specific interfaces (2
> out of 3 in my situation) or do I have to block the traffic using ipchains
> / iptables?

It's possible to limit the interfaces that samba uses. You only have to add
two lines to your smb.conf

interfaces           = eth0       10.67.50.0/24
bind interfaces only = yes

see man smb.conf for more information.

regards,

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