[Samba] _really_ disable netbios

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue May 15 18:37:33 GMT 2007


On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:24:37PM +0200, Pim Zandbergen wrote:
> I have disabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP on our network, both for
> Windows and for Samba hosts.
> 
> Samba hosts have these directives in their smb.conf
> 
> disable netbios = yes
> smb ports = 445
> 
> But I still see NetBIOS broadcasts and responses coming from Samba hosts,
> probably because they are still running nmbd.
> 
> Can I just shut nmbd down or does it still have use?

No, if everything is in DNS just shut it down.


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