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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
You'd have LOTs of complaint from me and many of my clients. Many of us log into our external gateway PDCs from foriegn locations. We have shares because we want shares. You are considering killing off a whole bunch of legitimate use because some are too brain-dead to not have unintentional shares on the internet? We use SMB/Samba INSTEAD of NFS because we believe SMB to be more secure. smb.conf certainly gives more security options than exports does. > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Call [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic? > > > > > Due to an increasing number of intrusions into windows-based machines > through unprotected shares, I've started filtering both incoming and > outgoing traffic for our customers on ports 138/139. > > So far this has caught a fair amount of traffic coming from > customers, > but none have called to complain about a lack of connectivity. > > Because this traffic is IP traffic, I wanted to ask others on > this list > how they treat SMB traffic on their backbones? > > Thanks > -Scott > >
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