[Samba] How to change the server info/version which Samba returns to the client?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 26.12.18 um 17:28 schrieb Dmitry Katsubo via samba:
> On 2018-12-26 17:10, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>> Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows 6.1] Server=[Samba 4.2.14-Debian]
>>
>> Comes from the servers Samba version, you cannot change this.
>>
>> The 'server string' parameter controls what is shown in browse lists
>> etc. This can be changed, but Samba will need to be restarted/reload
>> after the change and a new connection will need to be made to the
>> server.
> 
> If the server's version reported to the client can't be changed, can
> it be potentially simplify the implementation of attack on Samba server
> (as attacker knows the operating system and version of the server)?

surely, and sadly most of the stuff was diesgned with no awareness of
that fact - you can't supress the version in ssh because it#s part of
the proctol, the sme for mysql and httpd even refuses pacthes where you
simply can remove the sevrer header because no client needs to know what
type of webserver there is running at all

in other world: most developers don't care otherwise this would not
exist or at least not leak exact versions