Christian Brandes
2007-Oct-12 10:07 UTC
[Samba] multihomed samba -- how to tell samba which ip-numbers to respond?
I have got a samba server with multiple interfaces. Some of them are virtual interfaces in the same network dynamically assigned by a RedHat Cluster. So "Server1" can have: 192.168.1.1 (physical) 192.168.1.42 (virtual) 192.168.1.43 (virtual) 192.168.1.44 (virtual) ... 192.168.2.1 (physical) 192.168.2.42 (virtual) 192.168.2.43 (virtual) 192.168.2.44 (virtual) ... But virtual interfaces can change during runtime. When a Microsoft Client broadcasts for "Server1"s ip-number. Server1 responds one of it's ip-numbers on the corresponding network interfaces. Not necessarily the physical one. I would like not to set "bind interfaces only = true", in order to have the samba server still listen for connections on virtual interfaces, especially when they are assigned during runtime of the samba server. But I would like it not to advertise them. Is there a way to make the server answer only it's physical ip-number, when it receives a broadcast query? Best regards Christian