[Samba] disabling version number

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> I work at a large University.  We have on the order of 45K nodes.  I am
> not responsible for the management of all of the nodes on campus (praise
> the omnipotent bananafish) but I am responsible for asisting the
> Security Team and one of their jobs is to scan for systems that are not
> properly patched.  I, and they, would dearly love to have a sure-fire
> way to figure out which versions of Samba people on campus are running.  
> Something that operates at the NBT layer and is, therefore, not subject
> to SMB authentication would be optimal.

The version string we are talking about is returned in the "Native LanMan"
field of the SMBsessetup reply. I think we've all agreed to put this back 
in.





cheers, jerry
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