Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:45:25 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Marius Kirschner <marius@agoron.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing question -- Samba Message-ID: <20040209204524.GA85284@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200402092040.i19Ke4Gj029169@tao.agoron.com> References: <200402092040.i19Ke4Gj029169@tao.agoron.com>
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:40:04PM -0500, Marius Kirschner wrote:
> I have a 4.9 box that's on a public IP and I want to configure Samba so it
> only accepts connections from the private network (192.168.1). My question
> is, can I do that with only 1 NIC card or do I have to add a second NIC for
> the private LAN?
You can do make samba accept only on the 192.168.1.0/24 network by
specifying the "hosts allow" directive on smb.conf. However, if you
have the public IP and private network on the same NIC, people can
spoof your `private' network and get onto your box.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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