On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:46:12PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > This is a well-known issue with kernel AX.25 networking and samba. Yes, by > default Samba binds to all network interfaces and sends out "I'm here" packets > to them. > > There is indeed a way to shut it off. > > In your smb.conf file you need to have an "interfaces" line that lists the > network interfaces you want samba to use. Then you have a > "bind interfaces only" line that tells samba to use *only* the interfaces > listed in that line. > > If you use "swat" to manage your samba configuration, there's certainly a way > to do it there, too. > > On the "Globals" page of the SWAT configuration tool, look under "Base > Options" > and add your valid network interfaces to the "interfaces" box. Then set > "bind interfaces only" to "Yes" and commit changes, and restart your daemons. > > It should no longer touch your ax.25 interfaces.
And if, as you say, you're not even *using* samba, you're better off shutting off the daemon anyway. But if you *do* want to use it, you should probably read the smb.conf man page and learn how to make it listen not only to certain interfaces, but to certain valid IP addresses. You don't want your samba to be sending out past your router, nor listening to anybody that's not on your LAN. Samba's a pain to secure, but once you get it right it is good for what it does (sharing disks and printers to Windows clients --- you don't even need to run the daemons to share disks and printers from Windows servers). -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
