Hello You may use this method to add each IP to a rule : for ip in $NOC; do iptables -A SOME_CHAIN -p tcp -s $ip --dport 139 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT <other rules for Samba> done The loop will read each IP and add them to rules one by one. HTH Maxime Ducharme ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur DiSegna" <adisegna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 1:00 PM Subject: Creating a variable for multiple IP addresses? Hi, What is correct syntax to have one variable equal more than one ip address (not in order)? Is is possible or do I have to create a different rule for each IP. For example I want to enable Samba on a Linux server but only want a few members of network operations to have access to the server. NOC="192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.25" Thanks in advance