samba problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 19:23 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have two hosts (rhel1.example.com, IP:192.168.0.10, rhel2.example.com,
> > IP:192.168.0.12)
> >
> > I have share the folder /mnt/share in samba service.
> >
> > /etc/samba/smb.conf
> >
> > [newshare]
> >
> > comment=test
> >
> > path=/mnt/share
> >
> > public=yes
> >
> > writable=yes
> >
> > hosts allow = 192.168.0.
> >
> > It was succesful to mount the share folder with smbmount
> >
> > But if i change the hosts allow = .example.com
> >
> > It was failed to mount the share folder.
> >
> > Is it any syntax error in smb.conf
> >
> > P.S I already add the statement 192.168.0.12 rhel2 rhel2.example.com in
> > /etc/hosts of rhel1
> 
> Having the domain pointed to 192.168.0.12 is invalid as smb/nmb won't look in
> /etc/hosts. You have to use the IP addresses only in this case. You can use
> the hosts file if you remove .com and just use a simple host name, Ie: rhel2
> without the domain.
> 
> At least I believe that to be the case. Tomorrow when the majority of the list
> is back at work, you may get a better answer.

You're partially correct, Karl.  Samba supports hosts (hostnames and
FQDNs from both /etc/hosts and DNS), IPs and netgroups from NFS.  It
does NOT support DNS domains.

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