Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 67896
smb.conf's "hosts allow" should allow /yy for a netmask
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:51 EDT
Description of Problem: samba should recognize /yy parameters as network mask. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-2.2.3a-6 How Reproducible: Change a working smb.conf "hosts allow" directive to the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yy format, and run smbclient -L BIGSERVER (locally, from BIGSERVER). Works ok with: "hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0" ... but not with: "hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.0/8" I mark this as an enhancement because, although "man smb.conf" says that it recognizes ip/mask pairs, the example is written as "150.203.15.0/255.255.255.0" Depending on the smb.conf configuration, you may get a "Not listening for calling name" or simply a "Connection failed".
I suggest you make that suggestion on a samba mailing list - one such address is samba@lists.samba.org