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#1
January 28th, 2005, 03:28 PM
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| IT phoning Home? Little snitch tells me that NMBD is trying to contact Brazil, Italy, France and Jamaica - among other places. So what's that all about? I figure they must be cookies, so I deleted them, but NMBD continued to misbehave. I recognized one of the places as the server of a friend's email addy, so I thought it must be an ad from the mail, but it's hard to find the right thing to throw away in my eudora folder. I don't wannadoo any more reporting to France  What will happen if I take away NMBD's surfing privileges forever?  |
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#2
January 28th, 2005, 04:38 PM
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| Just because something is phoning home or is brought to your attention by Little Snitch doesn't mean that it's misbehaving -- in fact, phoning home is technically behaving properly. Here's a page on UNIX's nmbd: http://www.hmug.org/man/8/nmbd.html It may have something to do with samba. I have no idea what'll happen if you disallow nmbd from phoning home... you can try it, then remove the block from Little Snitch later if it causes problems, no?
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January 28th, 2005, 05:51 PM
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| nmbd is a program that allows netbios names to be mapped. The problem with it "calling home" will probably stop the name mapping with Windows filesharing working. It's not a problem though, and I'd probably leave it if I were you. Rob |
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#4
January 28th, 2005, 06:27 PM
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| There's been quite a bit of talk about Samba security, and I've tracked Apple a bit. - http://macintosh.fryke.com/cgi-bin/m...gin=find&path= - Seems like they just don't stay up to date... I'd URGE you to not use Windows File Sharing on the Mac for a while if you can. Little Snitch should then have nothing to say about nmbd and you oughta be safe - unless your machine's already open to some people, of course.
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#5
January 29th, 2005, 04:19 AM
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| So I turned off windows file sharing and Little Snitch shut up. I don't usually have to connect to Windows machines, so I'll leave it off. Just a clarification - Windows file sharing pref means a Windows machine can see me, right? I can still see windows shares, even if it's off, right? |
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#6
January 29th, 2005, 08:02 AM
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| Little Snitch blocks outgoing, not incoming, so it's seeing your machine trying to see/connect to other machines. It's not telling you someone is trying to get into your machine.
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#7
January 29th, 2005, 10:12 PM
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| I think you should still be able to connect to Windows machines - it wouldn't disable the client programs, just the persistently running server programs. Of course, I'm guessing - no access to a Windows box.
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