[luau] (no subject)

Ray Strode halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Jul 22 13:17:00 PDT 2002


>
>
> Under network config, /etc/hosts and lmhostsunder /etc/samba I have it 
> as 192.168.1.76
>
> When I try to connect to smb.conf via SWAT using 
> http://192.168.1.76:901 <http://192.168.1.76:901/> it rejects me.
>
> But when I connect to SWAT using http://127.0.0.1:901 
> <http://127.0.0.1:901/> it goes through.
>
> Why is that?
>
I think the rationale is that the configuration should only take place 
on the
local machine.  127.0.0.1 is the loopback ip, and can only ever be accessed
by the local machine, so it's the most secure ip to allow connections from.

--Ray





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