Unwanted browse lists

[Michel]

Thanks for your thoughts. But would this still allow these clients to 
browse the server ?

Michel.

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 Michel van der Laan	-	michel at nijenrode.nl
				http://www.nijenrode.nl/~michel
In your mail from 6-10-1998 you write:
> Michel,
> 
> One approach that hasn't been suggested is to block access to the netbios
> nameservice port on the samba host with a firewalling rule.  That way the
> other computers on the subnet can't register themselves with nmbd.
> 
> Suppose that your internal network is all within the 192.168.15.0/24
> network.  Each Windows workstation will automatically announce itself with
> a udp packet broadcast to 192.168.15.255 on port 137.  So if your OS
> supports firewalling you can just write a deny rule for packets that meet
> those criteria.
> 
> For instance, using Linux, I can write the following rule:
> 
> ipfwadm -I -a deny -S 192.168.15.0/24 -D 192.168.15.255 137 -P udp
> 
> which drops all packets destined for the udp netbios-ns port at 137.  Of
> course, you could enable specific machines to be listed by adding
> additional rules above this one.  If, for instance, you wanted the machine
> at 192.168.15.1 to appear in Network Neighborhood, you'd add the rule:
> 
> ipfwadm -I -a accept -S 192.168.15.1 -D 192.168.15.255 137 -P udp 
> 
> before the general deny rule above.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
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