Limiting browing when Samba on a gateway
JF Martinez
jfm2 at club-internet.fr
Sun Aug 29 18:54:42 GMT 1999
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> Hi Jean Francois!
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> > Use of the "interfaces" clause is supposed to block connections coming
> > from the outside so (in theory) we have no Samba related security
> > risk. However it seems this clause does not stop samba trying name
> > service related tasks on the wrong net
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> Did you use »bind interfaces only« too?
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Yes and it doesn't solve the problem. Apprently the interfaces and
bind interfcaes only control the services provided by the box but have
no influence on Samba trying to broadcast to the other net (I suupose
to other broswers) whenever a box comes up on the internal network.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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