samba - Feb 2004 - samba binded to private IP

Hi Everyone,

Is it possible for samba to bind to private IP only? When I binded 
samba to private IP it serves the requests locally on that machine but 
the client on local network cannot connect to samba server via private 
IP. There is no firewall on private interface.

When I commented the interfaces parameter (listening on all 
interfaces), I was able to connect to public IP of machine from clients 
on local network.

Does samba bind itself to hostname automatically? uname -a shows the 
hostname associated with public IP.  I am using Samba 
2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix.

Thanks,
Anshul

On 07/02/2004, at 9:04 PM, Jaroslaw Berezowski wrote:
>
> If you mean binding to LAN eth interface the answer is: YES.
>
> See: interfaces, bind interfaces only.
>
I used interfaces and bind interfaces only.

My setup is as follows,

  <public> HOST1<privateip> ------ <private-ip>HOST2
<public>

Host1 and Host2 are connected back to back. Now if Host1 has samba 
binded to private IP, Host2 cannot connect to it. There is no firewall 
on private interface.

But if Samba listens on public IP, host1 can connect. I was wondering 
if samba binds itself to hostname  like in windows.

Cheers,
Anshul