yeah it makes it so everyone can access it. you just gotta change the interfaces option to suite the needs, i dont have your last email, if you cant get it working give me the ip address of the client machine(unless its localhost) and output of 'ifconfig -a' on the machine.
on my machine: interfaces = 10.10.10.1/255.255.255.0 bind interfaces only = Yes that successfully blocks incoming SMB connections accross my PPP link(204.140.219.1/255.255.255.0) I'm using samba 2.1 (CVS from ~8 months ago) nate On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >Aphro, patric > patric >Spot on! Removing the interface binding means it works but I assume this patric >means everyone on the Internet has access to the share which is not what I patric >wanted. smb.conf reads : patric >#Global parameters patric >debug level = 3 patric >netbios name = gateway patric >workgroup = workgroup patric >server string = %h server (Debian) patric >#interfaces = 192.1.1.0/24 patric >#bind interfaces only = yes patric >share modes = yes patric >domain master = yes patric >time server = yes patric >os level = 40 patric > patric >The particular client is using public IP numbers for internal LAN (!) which patric >will change on Friday. Probably move to 10.0.0.0/24 and I'll bind the samba patric >access to this range only. patric > patric >Patrick patric > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:46pm up 188 days, 9:06, 1 user, load average: 1.25, 1.10, 1.09