hosts allow/deny not working correctly

[M. Tyson Bigler]

> Date:   Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:37:03 -0700
> From:   "Stephen L Arnold" <arnold.steve at ensco.com>
> To:     samba at samba.org
> Subject: Re: hosts allow/deny not working correctly
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> When the world was young, "M. Tyson Bigler" <bigler at shellus.com>
> carved some runes like this:
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> > I am having difficult getting the hosts allow/deny to work with IP ranges
> > or netmasks.  Ideally I would prefer to use the IP/Netmask method, e.g.
> > 111.22.33.0/255.255.255.0, because we have a flat ATM network with
> > multiple class C's (netmask is really 255.255.252.0).  This, however,
> > doesn't work!! I can't do 111.22.33. either...  I can't even do specific
> > IP's, e.g. 111.22.33.44 but I CAN do hostnames (e.g. myhost).
> [snip]
> 
> Does solaris use the same /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny setup as
> linux?  If it's like file/dir permissions, etc, then the samba
> settings will *not* override the underlying system settings.
> 
> Just a thought, Steve
> 
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Yes, Solaris has the same type of hosts.[allow|deny], but there's nothing in
there for the smbd/nmbd (I am, however, restricting rsh, rlogin, telnet, and
ftp).  Plus, best I remember, when I had Samba on a test server I had the
same problem and it didn't have the allow|deny files...

Thanks!

Tyson
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