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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:46:12 +0200
From:      Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netbios
Message-ID:  <20000613194612.B16541@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006131230070.29640-100000@saturn.terahertz.net>; from sideshow@terahertz.net on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:33:56PM -0500
References:  <F4763BE2083FD3119B7F00A024574723023D45@nova.kvalito.no> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006131230070.29640-100000@saturn.terahertz.net>

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:33:56PM -0500, Matt Watson wrote:
> NetBIOS should only be open if your running samba.  Incase you don't know
> NetBIOS is a part of windows' (at least its mostly used with
> windows) network communication protocol for filesharing and printer
> sharing etc.  You should be able to see the daemon running as 'nmbd' and
> 'smbd'  you'll want to kill both of them.  However its obviously being
> started at bootup time in your case, i'm not sure where freebsd would keep
> the startup for samba, probably /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.local.  If you
> don't find samba running i don't know whjat else it would be... i've never
> seen anything but samba use it.  You could find out using 'sockstat'.

Startup scripts for programs installed from ports (and Samba is such a
program) can be found in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and are named like
<progname>.sh. You want to delete or rename it for it not to run at startup.

-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Szeged University
Szeged Hungary


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