[Samba] Testing subnets with samba[Scanned]

Felipe Augusto van de Wiel felipe at paranacidade.org.br
Thu Jan 18 15:14:11 GMT 2007


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On 01/18/2007 06:11 AM, David Greenhall escreveu:
> From: Felipe Augusto van de Wiel [mailto:felipe at paranacidade.org.br] 
>>  On 01/16/2007 12:52 PM, David Greenhall escreveu:
[...]

>>>	bind interfaces only = yes
>>>	hosts allow = 10.10.10.0/24
>>>	hosts deny  = 0.0.0.0/0
>> 
>> 	Ok, so you had a rule for networks you accept and what
>> ports you bind to. Here is where we need to figure out the 
>> whole picture.
>> 
>> 	Looking closely you said in your first message that you
>> did the following setup:
>> 
>> 	>>>IP address: 10.10.10.32
>> 	>>>Netmask: 255.255.255.224
>> 	>>>Broadcast: 10.10.10.63
>> 
>> 
>> 	If that's right we have a small problem, not Samba related
>> but network related. Using .224 as a mask, creates networks 
>> with 32 IP number, but you lost the first (net address) and
>> the last one (broadcast address), which means that you should
>> not use .32 as an IP address.
>> 			1st			2nd
>> 	net-address	10.10.10.0		10.10.10.32
>> 	address space	10.10.10.[1-30]		10.10.10.[33-62]
>> 	broadcast	10.10.10.31		10.10.10.63
>> 
>> 	Considering that you are using a /24 to allow conections
>> and you had the right interfaces to bind to, I should say that 
>> changing the IP address would solve the problem. (At least, I
>> hope so). :-)
>
> Ahh... That is something I didn't know. So in theory, if I
> changed the server to:
> IP Address: 10.10.10.33
> Subnet: 255.255.255.224
> Broadcast: 10.10.10.63
>
> Then providing my workstation had an IP address within the range
> of 34-62 with the same subnet, it should connect me?

	Supposing that everything else is properly configured,
yes, it should magically works. ;)


> Thanks
> Dave.

	Kind regards,

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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at paranacidade.org.br>
Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informação (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE
http://www.paranacidade.org.br/           Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300)
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