Login Failure
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Mar 26 04:12:03 GMT 2001
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:21:21 Tim Potter wrote:
>
> OK - when host machines connect to Samba and the 'hosts allow'
> and 'hosts deny' options are present, Samba needs to determine
> the DNS name to work out whether to allow the connection. If the
> host does not have a reverse IP then it is automatically rejected
> as Samba cannot determine whether to allow or deny the
> connection. This is because the code is based on the tcp wrapper
> code and netbios names are too easy to spoof.
>
> Er, I don't think it is actually documented anywhere. )-:
Tim,
I'm going to look at this tomorrow again. If the hosts allow/deny
only has IP addrs in it, then the gethostbyaddr() calls are
unnecessary. Sounds ok?
CHeers, jerry
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