> Just for sake of curiosity: > > Is that possible ? > I'd like to support XP Pro *only* and to ban any other Windows OS
There are some very advanced networking stacks which allow you to specify filtering based on TCP fingerprints. OpenBSD does, for example. I don't know if XP Home and XP Pro have different enough fingerprints to allow a reliable discrimination between them. This is a puzzling request, though. I am assuming that these unwanted hosts can change their ip#, thus evading firewall/smb.conf based access lists. It's easier to distinguish between XP versus 2000 versus 95, 98, Me, and NT4, etc. Those have rather different fingerprints. If you don't use OpenBSD, I suppose you could make use of nmap to perform a quick on-the-fly OS fingerprint and then pull up a firewall against that ip#, thus blocking the unwanted user(s). It seems to me that it'd be simpler to just allow access only from certain domains, etc. Malcolm -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
