Re: Samba: from inetd vs. daemon
> Run it as a daemon. The initial connection is *much* faster,
> even on a fast box. My users here gauge it against our NT40 servers.
^^^^
Didn't you mean "slow" here?
I agree it's much faster when run as daemon. I've seen it in my own servers.
> > One point that makes running Samba from inetd favorable is security:
> > the tcp wrapper can be used to control access to the server. However,
> > as someone said in debian-private, access control can be done from
> > within Samba by using the "allow hosts" directive in smb.conf.
>
> Yes, and you should not allow ports 137 and 138 ( I think those are right )
> to be passed by your firewall anyway! :)
Your're absolutely right. These ports (and 139, probably) shouldn't pass
through.
E.-
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