[Samba] Re: Configuring a samba server with two NICs

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Fabio <egalua at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> FWIW, there was just a discussion on the Dell Server list trying to use a
>> crossover between two recent Dell servers.
>> It DIDN'T work.
>> A normal network cable did.
>> Seems that some modern cards a suppose to auto-configure, but in this case
>> it didn't work with a crossover.
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.dell.poweredge/32995
>>
>>
>> Can you at least PING it?
>> Dennis
>
> Sorry, I forgot to answer this.
>
> If I configure samba to listen only on eth0 (my laptop connected via a
> crossover cable), then I can access the shared dir.
>
> If that matters, I also configured ip masquerading so that from the laptop
> I can access the internet via the desktop.
>

Are you trying to access samba on the laptop using the ipaddress of
the samba server?

John