[Samba] SMBmount on more than one IP?

Gavin Hamill gdh at acentral.co.uk
Sun Jul 7 07:24:03 GMT 2002


On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 07:20:34AM -0700, Bill Parker wrote:
> I am trying to get SMBmount to connect to a win2k machine with more than one
> IP assigned to the NIC, it works ok for the first assigned IP, but when I 
> try the
> 2nd IP addr, it gives me a 'access denied', can anyone determine what the
> problem would be?

Yes, quite simply Windows only listens for SMB/CIFS connections on its 
primary IP address - it took me quite a lot of head-scratching to 
determine this :)

It's an enormous pain in the bum, but you can thank Mr. Gates for that 
one :/

gdh





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