[Samba] Using the right network interface

[Joel Hammer]

Just having a senior moment here, but, I recall vaguely that samba will
listening on all NIC's but ignores the ones you tell it to ignore with.

Joel

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:44:02PM +1100, Simeonidis, Steve wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> samba 2.2.5
> The server I'm using has 2 interfaces so using the
> interface parameter I'm telling samba to use eth0 but
> for some reason when I do netstat it is listening on eth1
> 
> interface = eth0 (the IP is 192.168.6.10)
> 
> 
> netstat -an
> udp        0      0 138.79.161.225:137      0.0.0.0:*
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:137             0.0.0.0:*
> udp        0      0 138.79.161.225:138      0.0.0.0:*
> 
> 138.79.161.225 is the IP of eth1!??!
> 
> I've also tried interface = 192.168.6.10/24
> 
> Any ideas??
> 
> 
> Steve Simeonidis
> Network Engineer, Spherion Education
> Spherion Group Ltd
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