[ale] Samba

David Corbin dcorbin at imperitek.com
Thu Mar 21 08:14:44 EST 2002


Progress.  I did have the "/24" style, though I had tried the other 
earlier without total success.  Changing the to one of the ways you 
suggested, I now get:

C:\>net view \\mercury
System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.

testparm says everything is OK.

Joe Steele wrote:

>
>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, David Corbin wrote:
>
>>Joe Steele wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, David Corbin wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have "hosts allow" for my LAN, but not "hosts deny"
>>>>
>>>Not being familiar with your LAN -- Is gates.csol.com one of the hosts
>>>specifically included with 'hosts allow'?  
>>>
>>Yes.  my hosts.allow has my class C network in it, and gates has one 
>>address from that class C.
>>
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>I guess a better question would have been:  what does your 'hosts allow'
>entry look like?  Any of the following should work: 
>
>hosts allow = 199.233.163.
>hosts allow = 199.233.163.0/255.255.255.0
>hosts allow = .csol.com
>
>On the other hand, the following would probably fail silently (unless you
>had your debug level set high enough):
>
>hosts allow = 199.233.163.0/24
>
>You might check the result of the following:
>
>   testparm gates.csol.com 199.233.163.38
>
>This tests whether a given host-name/address is allowed or denied by your
>smb.conf file.  If it comes back saying denied, then there's a problem
>with your 'hosts allow' entry. 
>
>If it comes back saying allowed, then the only thing I can suggest is
>shutting down samba, restarting it, then trying to repeat your steps to
>see if you are still getting the 'Connection denied' log message. 
>
>--Joe
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