[Samba] Question about version 2.0.6 & 2.0.7

[Lennard Bakker]

On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 16:19, Perrizo, Steve wrote:
> Lennard,
> 
> So on Samba 2.0.6 Unix, I can remove the allow hosts entry from each 
> item & in the global entry???
Yes, that is possible.

But also read the comment send by Bernd Wölfel
<bernd.woelfel at techpilot.net> on the list.

Lennard


> 
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> Stephen E Perrizo
> EDS/I-Solutions, Infrastructure Services, Midwest
> UNIX Systems Team
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> steve.perrizo at eds.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lennard Bakker [mailto:lennard.bakker at cmg.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:18 AM
> To: Perrizo, Steve
> Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Question about version 2.0.6 & 2.0.7
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:51, Perrizo, Steve wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is my first time mailing to this site.
> > 
> > I am running two different versions of Samba on two different servers.
> 2.0.6
> > on server A  &  2.0.7 on server B
> > In the smb.conf file for 2.0.6 I have a parameter, allow hosts=, that
> > contains multipul IP addresses on each entry & 
> > in the global entry.  On server B, 2.0.7,  I do not have this parameter
> > defined on any entry.
> > 
> > My question is :  Can I change the smb.conf file running 2.0.6 and remove
> > the allow hosts= parameter??? 
> 
> The allow hosts= parameters only limits the host which may connect to
> the samba server. If you remove the line, every host is allow to ocnnect
> to the samba server.
> 
> So if every client may access the shares, you can remove the parameter
> and restart samba.
> 
> Lennard
>