[Samba] Using the right network interface

[Simeonidis, Steve]

I've tried the bind interfaces only = yes but still the same

netstat gives the same results.


What I'm really trying to do and why I need this is because
I want to run 2 instances of SAMBA, a different one on each interface.


The second instance doesn't even start properly.

Thanks



Steve Simeonidis
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Spherion Group Ltd

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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Boehm [mailto:boehm at nortelnetworks.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:47 PM
To: Simeonidis, Steve
Cc: Joel Hammer; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Using the right network interface


On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:25:07AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> writes:

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

Yes, samba will listen on all interfaces.

The problem is that Steve hasn't specified all the parameters
necessary to restrict Samba to one interface.

Try something like the following:

interfaces           = 192.168.6.10/24 127.0.0.1/8
bind interfaces only = yes

You will want to include the loopback interfaces

Check the sections in "man smb.conf" regarding these two
directives. You need to include the loopback interface in the
interfaces list or smbpasswd and swat will not work.

    Steve> Hi everyone,

    Steve> samba 2.2.5 The server I'm using has 2 interfaces so using
    Steve> the interface parameter I'm telling samba to use eth0 but
    Steve> for some reason when I do netstat it is listening on eth1

    Steve> interface = eth0 (the IP is 192.168.6.10)


    Steve> netstat -an udp 0 0 138.79.161.225:137 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0
    Steve> 0.0.0.0:137 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 138.79.161.225:138 0.0.0.0:*

    Steve> 138.79.161.225 is the IP of eth1!??!

    Steve> I've also tried interface = 192.168.6.10/24

    Steve> Any ideas??


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