Win NT and AllowHosts key

James (Wez) Weatherall jnw22 "at" cam.ac.uk
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:34:33 +0000


> Hello,
> I am trying to dissallow all hosts that are not on my subnet.  I have
> put the AllowHosts key (made up of a string) with the value
> "+206.135.228" and yet a friend on a different subnet can still attach
> to the computer.  I have put it in several places in the registry after
> it didn't work in the place that the manual said to put it.  Can anyone
> suggest a solution?  Thanks in advance.

You haven't excluded anyone with the above rule.  The default access is
"everyone".  You need to prefix the above with "-:" to exclude everyone and
then add that subnet back in.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
--
          "Xenophobes should go back to Xenophobia"
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