[Samba] Using the right network interface

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ronan Waide wrote:

> Well, yeah, my understanding of the manual page was that if I set bind
> interfaces only, then it'll only respond on those interfaces. So even if
> someone pokes at the dialup interface, they shouldn't get a response.
> This doesn't appear to be the case at the moment.

No. I think the manual page describes a subtle difference (at least it 
used to).  if "bind interfaces only" is enabled, then nmbd will only 
respond to packets whose broadcast address matches the address of an
interface listed as a  valid interfaces in smb.conf.



cheers, jerry
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