Re: [Samba] interfaces parameter use needs clarification

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Smith
Thanks for clearing that up. It's good to know that one can rely on the official docs. On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:07, John H Terpstra wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Chris Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:17, John H Terpstra wrote: > > > > > > Which clearly, and seemingly purposely, leaves

Re: [Samba] interfaces parameter use needs clarification

2003-01-31 Thread John H Terpstra
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Chris Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:17, John H Terpstra wrote: > > > > Which clearly, and seemingly purposely, leaves out the lo interface. > > > > Which is always allowed except when explicitly NOT allowed. > > OK, so there is no need to add the lo interface because

Re: [Samba] interfaces parameter use needs clarification

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Smith
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:17, John H Terpstra wrote: > > Which clearly, and seemingly purposely, leaves out the lo interface. > > Which is always allowed except when explicitly NOT allowed. OK, so there is no need to add the lo interface because it is added by default. How about the format of th

Re: [Samba] interfaces parameter use needs clarification

2003-01-31 Thread John H Terpstra
Chris, >From ~samba/source/lib/interface.c: / interpret a single element from a interfaces= config line This handles the following different forms: 1) wildcard interface name 2) DNS name 3) IP/masklen 4) ip/mask 5) bcas

[Samba] interfaces parameter use needs clarification

2003-01-31 Thread Chris Smith
In the thread titled: Re: [Samba] Mandrake 9.0: rpcclient problem exporting printers to samba for windows There exists some advice whcih brings confusion: > > interfaces = 10.0.0.2/24 > > I think this could be a problem, you should list the loopback address in > your interfaces list (lo or 127.