Re: Samba security :/ ?

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From: Charlie Brady
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00

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On 19 Mar 1997, Rachel Polanskis wrote:

> In article <5glm4d$rag$1@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au>,
> 	agreen@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au (Anthony Green) writes:
> > 
> > heya alll ..
> > 
> > uhm... as samba is in inetd.conf i thought it'd be handled by
> > hosts.allow hosts.deny etc .. but it seems that samba doesnt
> > take any notice of these as i had people looking at my
> > drives from half way round the world :/
> > 
> > any suggestions/help appreciated
> 
> Are you actually running tcpwrappers?
> 
> You might be advised to filter the ports that samba runs on at the gateway
> router.

The samba configuration file smb.conf has  hosts.allow and hosts.deny
settings and uses code out of tcp wrappers. If you are running it from
inetd and the /etc/hosts.allow etc settings are not being used it is
because you are not running smbd via tcpd.

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From: Charlie Brady <cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au>
Subject: Re: Samba security :/ ?
Date: 1997/03/21
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