On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:45:23PM -0600, Keyur Desai wrote: > >>Who enables this? Is the administrator expected to know when to do > >>this, or does it get enabled automatically when needed (when sharectl > >>demands it)? > >> > > nbtd daemon is disabled by default. Most administrators know if they > need to enable/disable NetBIOS protocol in their network. > > Some scenarios to enable NetBIOS include, having a system in a network, > which has NT 4.0 (and/or previous) OS installed, or systems > not upgraded to ADS.
This can't be right. You must mean providing services to such systems requires that this service be enabled, right? > Some administrators choose to disable NetBIOS from their network, > in order to reduce network traffic caused by periodic host announcements. And also because NetBIOS has a reputation for security bugs. > Enabling/disabling of this daemon is at the discretion of the administrator. It's not needed by either the SMB server nor the SMB client? Nico --
