Hi. I have a linux box connected to the isp through a adsl modem.I receive an dynamically ip address from the isp. I have also 2 win boxes connected to the linux box which run samba.But no matter what I try I cant see the linuxbox from the win machines unless I have given the ip address obtained from the isp in host,host.allow and lmhosts.So I just wonder if samba can't deal with dynamic ip addresses at all. ______________________________________________________ Sjekk sn?rapporter... fra 500 ski-destinasjoner i Europa p? http://no.snow.yahoo.com/
Do you have two nics or one? Seems like your win machines would not care about your external interface, unless that's what you connect through. Are you on the same side of the ISP as the samba server? Or, are you in a remote location trying to connect over the ISP to the samba server? It sounds like you are "inside" but telling your win boxes to go outside your network to connect through the eth interface to your ISP... Paul>>> Kjetil Tjensvold <feb2000info@yahoo.no> 01/18/02 08:17AM >>>Hi. I have a linux box connected to the isp through a adsl modem.I receive an dynamically ip address from the isp. I have also 2 win boxes connected to the linux box which run samba.But no matter what I try I cant see the linuxbox from the win machines unless I have given the ip address obtained from the isp in host,host.allow and lmhosts.So I just wonder if samba can't deal with dynamic ip addresses at all. ______________________________________________________ Sjekk sn?rapporter... fra 500 ski-destinasjoner i Europa p? http://no.snow.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
What you have is not a deficiency of samba, more a deficiency of windows and your isp. Your ISP doesn't know to send your linux box's ip as the wins server, you may be able to enter it manually. Windows will take the idea of it's name server as given (the isp's name server) and therefore will not know "SERVER"'s IP address. At 02:17 PM 1/18/02 +0100, you wrote:>Hi. >I have a linux box connected to the isp through a adsl >modem.I receive an dynamically ip address from the >isp. >I have also 2 win boxes connected to the linux box >which run samba.But no matter what I try I cant see >the linuxbox from the win machines unless I have given >the ip address obtained from the isp in >host,host.allow and lmhosts.So I just wonder if samba >can't deal with dynamic ip addresses at all. > >______________________________________________________ >Sjekk sn?rapporter... >fra 500 ski-destinasjoner i Europa >p? http://no.snow.yahoo.com/ > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/sambaMartyn Life's a bitch, but so am I.
Why not install IpFilter on the Linux box (along with a second NIC) and run a crossover from the dsl Modem to the linux box. Then from the second NIC run to your ethernet to the hub. Set up the Linux box with IpFilter and IpNat and you have the added security without bandwith loss. That way the only dynamic IP address you have is the outside one on the DSL modem side of your Linux Box and you control the class C network on the inside. go here: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html You Wrote: "I dont know, but the 2 win boxes and the linuxbox obtain diffrent ip addresses from the isp.They are all connected to a hub which are connected to the adsl modem. So try my suggestion and add the linux box as the wins server on the clients, but make sure wins support = yes in your samba.conf"