Samba on two Ethernets

[Charlie Brady]

On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Sinisha Milivojevich wrote:

> On one location I have a following setup. Linux machine is Internet
> server with masquerading. One Ethernet (eth0) is connected directly to
> router, which speaks directly to Internet. The other Ethernet (eth1) is
> connected to local network. 
> 
> A problem is the following one. Samba servers and clients always look at
> the first network, and not to the second one where are 20 Windoze
> machines.
> 
> I have tried the following:
> 
> * I changed eth0 and eth1 to do vice versa
> * I have put up in smb.conf a name of the workgroup to be the same as
> local domain

Try adding to smb.conf

 socket address = x.x.x.x

where x.x.x.x is the address of the local network ethernet.

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