NetBIOS name server protocol spoofing

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Peter Polkinghorne wrote:

> 
> Summary: machines can be asked to give up NetBios names, by means of
> name conflict and name release requests.
> 
> I did have a quick look at the code, but apart from no obvious ref to
> conflict packets could not determine.
> Is Samba vulnerable to this problem?

no, because the nmbd service is totally independent of the smbd service.
nmbd does not have to be run *at all*.