[Samba] disabling version number

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Apr 14 15:23:18 GMT 2003


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On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Florian Effenberger wrote:

> Hi Jerry,
> 
> thanks for the reply, that's exactly what I meant. :-)
> 
> I know security by obscurity isn't good, but may I suggest a new option in
> the smb.conf file, something like
> 
> version_string = "Samba %s"?

The version string has already been stripped out in Samba 3.0.





cheers, jerry
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