[Xastir] Samba Peculiarity

[Tom ve7did]

Perhaps most of you know this, but the other day I happened to be 
watching my transmit led on the TNC and noticed some long (10 seconds or 
so) continuous transmissions being generated by my station every 15 or 
so minutes.  I am using the TNC's in KISS Mode running 3 different 
functions. Normally you may not notice this as the transmissions are not 
heard by the sending station.  After monitoring it with the listen 
command there was all kinds of "junk" being sent.
So, after much fiddling around and head scratching it turned out to be 
Samba which was generating this info.  It looks like it was sending info 
to all ports, perhaps broadcasting itself to other computers on a 
network.  Goofy thing is I'm not even using Samba yet and it was 
installed by default with Slackware. ( I just upgraded to the newer 
version and upgraded to a slightly new computer).

So, if you happen to be listening to the aprs network and you hear long 
transmissions about every 15 or 20 minutes, there is a good chance 
someone else running xastir in kiss mode with Samba running.  I'm sure 
there must be a way in Samba to select which ports you want these 
broadcasts to go out on, but I haven't played with it yet, so I killed 
it for the time being.

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Propagation Knows No Boundaries
73 de Tom,  ve7did