[PATCH] Make NetBIOS traffic always go through nmbd

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Mar 30 23:00:15 UTC 2018


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Volker Lendecke via samba-technical wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Attached find a patchset that makes us more like Windows regarding
> netbios traffic: All outgoing packets go through nmbd or nbt_server,
> making them come from port 137/138. This is done by opening the
> already existing "unexpected" pipe also for outgoing packets.
> 
> This should in the future obsolete the "disable netbios" parameter.
> Either you run nmbd/nbt_server or you don't.
> 
> It has survived a few private autobuilds.
> 
> Review appreciated!

FYI, I'm reviewing this now. Might take a little while
(a day or so ?) as it's complex and I want to understand it :-).



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