Accessing Samba shares via PPP links

Ivan N Paz isa at artsoft.cult.cu
Sun Aug 1 00:29:16 GMT 1999


>What is the correct way to access a Samba share when the Samba server has a
>private IP adress (eg 192.168.x.y), the (Windows via PPP)  client is
assigned a
>relevant private address (eg 192.168.x.z) and the username/password used to
>login to the client is not known to the server and/or is different from the
username/
>password used to login to the server.
>
....

Just a hint....

Samba may be configured to listen on certain ifaces... will this have
anything to
do with that??? I mean, I'm sure it defaults to listen on the eth iface but
what
about the ppp ones???

Not sure....
maybe I'm completely mistaken.... in that case please correct me guys.

Ivan





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