Nicolas Williams wrote: > 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?
Yes. >> 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. Yes. >> 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? Other services (such as the SMB server or client) can specify nbtd as a dependency but I think that's outside the scope of this fasttrack. From the nbtd perspective, it is only started on demand, which may be as a result of an 'svcadm enable -r ...' Alan
