A samba sharing server should have the ip that is in the hosts allow of smb.conf

attockonian · 08-31-2006, 02:17 PM

Hi,

I had my smb.conf file with the following allowed hosts

hosts allow = 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.4
*Ip of my server was 192.168.1.2

I had to reboot my system and somehow my ip was changed to 192.168.1.3 ( it could be beacuse my laptop accquired *.3 when i reboot, but this is not the case). In then case when my server's ip was *.3 samba was sharing files with other pcs on the network.

So i did a netconfig and put 192.168.1.3 as the ip of my server, yet it was not working.

Then i thoght may be its conflicting with the 'hosts allow' in smb file. So I disabled hosts allow.

Now the question I have is this. A samba sharing server should have the ip that is in the hosts allow of smb.conf?

gilead · 08-31-2006, 02:49 PM

The hosts allow line is for configuring which other boxes can connect to your samba server so the IP address of the samba server itself doesn't have to be there. A server shouldn't have a dynamic address - can you reconfigure it with a static IP address? That way you won't get this sort of problem.