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   Benny Pedersen to Tony Langdon   
   Re: ipv6   
   02 Feb 18 22:46:50   
   
   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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    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (1:261/38.20)   

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