From: Jim Mercer [mailto:jim@reptiles.org] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 8:49 PM
You are considering killing off a whole bunch of legitimate use because some are too brain-dead to not have unintentional shares on
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:19:12PM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote: the internet?
well, maybe if there was a global filter on SMB then the brain-dead company that produces the brain-dead software will wake up and realize that maybe it shouldn't produce software that by default leaves their users open to intrusion or viruses.
You are assuming (wrongly) that microshit is the only one using that protocol. Have you never heard of the samba project? I remember explicitly referencing smb.conf files. That's Unix/Samba bud. I also mentioned that it works better than NFS. I don't recall microshit-anything shipping with NFS. Believe it or not, one or two of us actually know what we're doing.
geez, if the filter was there, are you saying that people who _need_ SMB shares are too brain-dead to come up with a straight forward way to make it get around the filter?
There is no straight-forward way around a filter, by definition the straight-forward way is to not have the filter!