Why would my firewall get hitrepeatedly with Mdns & Samba?
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SandyBaby
Why would my firewall get hitrepeatedly with Mdns & Samba?
I understand what mdns & zeroconf is, so are these just scans looking for machines with this config (or lack therof) activated? From a former Windows perspective a Samba scan would be the equivalent of a File/printer share vulnerability scan; am I off base here? Not sure what to make of it. Thanks.
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unexistance
Re: Why would my firewall get hitrepeatedly with Mdns & Samb
Hi,
Very hard to say, it might be coming from mint itself, which you can turn off (not load during startup).
Regards,
Very hard to say, it might be coming from mint itself, which you can turn off (not load during startup).
Regards,
Re: Why would my firewall get hitrepeatedly with Mdns & Samb
It might not necessarily be a scan. By default both Windows and Linux will broadcast their netbios names to everyone on the LAN so that everyone knows they're there.
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SandyBaby
Re: Why would my firewall get hitrepeatedly with Mdns & Samb
Thanks; yeah in Windows I commonly disabled Netbios/TCp for that reason -- to reduce the chances of my shares getting mapped by some punk. Not sure what protocol is here -- a lot of people in Linux Land say "forgettaboughit, don't worry!" buts thats a tough pill to swallow coming from the Dark Side of MS! I'll have to hit the books again.