On 7/22/2012 2:59 AM, lina wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Andrei POPESCU > <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Du, 22 iul 12, 15:41:16, lina wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, I don't have some basic understanding about samba, >>> will read something about it. >>> just a short quick question, is it necessary to keep it? >> >> Only you can tell since we don't know what you use/need. > I felt a bit silly to ask, and a bit annoyed about myself for knowing > so little. > seems no need to share files with outside. > have rejected all inbound towards the port 139 and 445.
If you don't need it, why not disable the service and free up the memory the smbd/nmbd daemons are using? Maybe I wasn't clear. Disabling the Samba service, or simply uninstalling Samba, closes those ports. When the ports are closed, there's no need to firewall them. If you do anyway, it's like putting a padlock on a steel door that's been welded shut. If you need a few pounds of dynamite to blow the door open, the padlock yields zero extra protection. Same for firewalling. The solution is very simple: ~$ aptitude remove samba -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/500bba1d.5040...@hardwarefreak.com
