On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 14:27 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 14:23, P Jones wrote: > > Hi All; > > > > I have two IP addresses on my FC3 machine, 192.168.0.101 on eth0 (a > > physical ethernet card) and 192.168.0.99 on eth0:1 (a virtual device). > > Samba, by default, runs on 192.168.0.99, and I'd like it to run on > > 192.168.0.101 . > > > > The first question is how do I have Samba server run on 192.168.0.101, > > but the second question is this; why does Samba choose to run on the > > secondary virtual device as opposed to the primary physical device on > > the machine? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -P > > Possibly due to the IP addressing used. Binds to the first IP address > in that range. > > Curious why you are using two IPs in the same subnet? > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx Hi Scot; I do it because I run an HTTP proxy which forwards to an ssh forward on 192.168.0.101, and then I wanted to run a test web site on the same machine, so I set up the second IP to run apache on. I have no idea if this is the "right" way to go about it, but it works, so that's what I do. -P
