samba interfaces (yes, i'm a muppet)

acid_kewpie · 09-02-2001, 05:24 AM

OK, so i just looked at my samba logs and it seems people have been logging into my samba shares like wildfire for absolutely ages. bugger!

will setting 'allow hosts = 10.0.0.' restrict hosts soley to that subnet?

Also, I'm having trouble writing to vfat samba shares. I've just sussed out that the deal seems to be that i can copy anything up to abuot 200kb after that it's refuses. any help? PLEASE?!

jharris · 09-02-2001, 07:14 AM

Always liked the muppets...

Yeah, your allow hosts line should sort out your problem, unless they start faking their IP addresses... you could always use IPTables/IPChains to firewall off your ports on your 'public' interface or look into the interfaces = option so you only listen on a single IP address for connections. My interfaces line is

Code:

interfaces = 192.168.1.2/24

so my box only listens on my 192.168.1.2 interface.

As for the copying - the only thing I can suggest is look at your socket option = line - I had a problem where I could copy smaller files but big transfers just died, I ended up using

Code:

socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY

but I'd suggest you read the Samba documention on performance tuning to learn more about these options.

HTH

Jamie...

acid_kewpie · 09-03-2001, 11:29 AM

i tried what you suggested, and no joy. my smb.conf says

[global]
workgroup = swingyourpants
server string = simon
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
interfaces = eth0
directory mask = 0777
create mask = 0777
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
default case = lower
preserve case = yes
mangle case = yes

[mp3]
path = /mp3
comment = mp3
writeable = yes
read only = 0
valid users = chris jon sarah aj

I can copy files in a dos terminal in windows, but windows explorer gives me headaches. any ideas? it really does seem to be all files over 200kb to a vfat (ONLY!) share get denied...