Samba and binding interfaces in the global smb.conf

Thaidog · 03-13-2006, 01:11 PM

I have a situation where I have 2 interfaces on a machine but I only want one of those interfaces to allow access to the samba shares. I was wondering if i added:

[global]
interfaces = 192.168.2.101/255.255.255.0
bind interfaces only = yes

To the global file if that would be sufficient to keep that particuar interface allowed only.

Also, would this stop the service on the other interface or would it simply block it?

zeitounator · 03-14-2006, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thaidog

I was wondering if i added:

[global]
interfaces = 192.168.2.101/255.255.255.0
bind interfaces only = yes

To the global file if that would be sufficient to keep that particuar interface allowed only.

Yes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thaidog

Also, would this stop the service on the other interface or would it simply block it?

Short answer: Samba runs 2 services: name service (nmdb) and file service (smbd). It will 'simply block' for the name service and 'stop the service' (not bind it) for the file service.

Long answer: search for "bind interfaces only" in the smb.conf man page where all this is very well explained.