Hello Tony!

03 Feb 2018 06:56, Tony Langdon wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 TL> We were talking about port 445 - Windows SMB sharing.  Unless there's 
 TL> some really obscure registry hack I've never heard off, I don't know how
to 
 TL> make that listen on specific interfaces/IPs.

i have not found anything there either

 TL> Sure on *NIX using Samba, you could do
 TL> it, but the vast majority of machines using this port are Windows 
 TL> boxes. Firewalling is your only option.

i am not smb expert, just think is sad to see hospitals in england got
compromised by smb protocol not secure enouh for real life, its so sad to see
microsoft have software not real tested in real life before sold to custommers

 BP>> firewalls is last resort on problems not possible to solve otherwize
 TL>  :=)
 TL> And this is one of them. :)

my default is shorewall :=)

and staying away from precompiled problems


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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