Samba on two Interfaces

[may24]

Hi All,

I've a File Server running CENTOS 7.1 with two interfaces: enp4s0 & enp4s1

enp4s0: 192.168.1.10
enp4s1: 192.168.2.10

Both shall share different dir's of the underlying Raid system.
But how to setup the Samba service to work on two interfaces ?
Or if that's not possible, how to setup multiple instances of Samba ?

[aks]

Can't you get Samba to listen on both interfaces? Is that the problem?

[may24]

No, that's not the problem.
The point is: I've two interfaces that support two different networks. And both net's should get their shares from this machine

[gerald_clark]

Then what is the problem?

[may24]

How to:

configure samba to work on two different sub-nets

or

start two different instances of Samba so I'd have one per subnet

[TrevorH]

Samba works on multiple interfaces at the same time if you tell it to do so. What is your concern about doing that?

[lightman47]

How to:

Going out on a limb here I think they're eluding to options in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. I'm by no means an expert but I'd guess it's a matter of defining the interfaces. I did a little digging and found the docs below but didn't immediately spot any references to your question therein.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation ... samba.html

Hopefully someone with more know-how than myself will step in. In the meantime perhaps you'll find something worth while.

[aks]

As a clue, if samba is listening on all interfaces (usually presented as *:<port number> in ss and netstat) then it'll "get" requests to it from any network connected.

[barry905]

If I understand it correctly, samba by defaults listens on all active interfaces. You can restrict it, or include a complete list using the "interfaces" directive, but you only need one instance of samba to provide shares to you network.

You may have a problem, however, if you want to offer different services on each interface.