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Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client



On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM, H.S. <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/06/10 03:32 PM, H.S. wrote:
> On 07/06/10 03:28 PM, H.S. wrote:
>> On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if it can works, so please tell us if you get this working  :)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>
>> I didn't have that in smb.conf file at all. I have included the
>> following lines in it and restarted samba:
>> hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/24 172.16.15.0/24
>> hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
>>
>> So no client from the wireless LAN (192.168.5.0/24) is allowed, and only
>> from the wired LAN and VPN are allowed.
>>
>> I see a samba log file for the VPN client from which I am trying to
>> access the shared folder. Here are the last few lines(the log has lines
>> from earlier today as well which say similar stuff as below):
>> [2010/06/07 13:58:21,  1] smbd/service.c:1063(make_connection_snum)
>>   172.16.15.22 (172.16.15.22) connect to service SharedFolder initially
>> as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 8948)
>> [2010/06/07 13:58:46,  1] smbd/service.c:1240(close_cnum)
>>   172.16.15.22 (172.16.15.22) closed connection to service SharedFolder
>>
>>
>> Does this give any further clues?

A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and
now I can connect to the share from a VPN client:
; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 172.16.15.0/24 192.168.5.0/24


However, I can not only use "sudo smbmount ..." command to access the
samba share. The Network browser from Gnome still does not show the
share while a VPN client. The VPN client is a laptop running Ubuntu Karmic.

You may need to have 2 servers to do it (one replicating network map from master). Read in samba howto:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2585378

Regards,

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