Routing question -- Samba

[Jonathan Chen]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:40:04PM -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote:
> I have a 4.9 box that's on a public IP and I want to configure Samba so it
> only accepts connections from the private network (192.168.1).  My question
> is, can I do that with only 1 NIC card or do I have to add a second NIC for
> the private LAN?

You can do make samba accept only on the 192.168.1.0/24 network by
specifying the "hosts allow" directive on smb.conf. However, if you
have the public IP and private network on the same NIC, people can
spoof your `private' network and get onto your box.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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