Samba Questions

[Brian Borowski]

Janina:
Samba uses ports TCP/139, UDP/137-139, and there may be more, do a netstat
-an to see what ports are open with and without samba running if you're not
on a busy machine.

You permit whatever you want in the smb.conf file, not the TCP wrappers
stuff.

Brian Borowski


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Can anyone answer two (hopefully simple) samba questions for me:
>
> 1.)	What ports does samba need opened?
>
> 2.)	Does hosts.allow/hosts.deny actually work in samba 2.2? According
> to the docs, hosts.allow should take precedence, but it doesn't seem to
> work like my /etc/hosts.* files do. To put this question otherwise, how do
> I specify allowing a class C range -- i.e. 192.168.77. -- and denying all
> others?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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