You can specify in your smb.conf a "hosts allow = " and "hosts deny = ". This, with security = user (and only adding the valid users to your smbpasswd file or using "valid users = ") and removing guest access from your shares, should give you the level of security you want.
`man smb.conf` -nicole At 13:54 on Nov 17, shadow combined all the right letters to say: > Hi, > > I have some problems with Samba. I have a large network and want to share > my printer, but allow only access from several hosts or even some users, > which are registered on my machine. All is ok then I do such thing for > file shares