[Xastir] Samba Peculiarity

[Scott Evans]

Hi...

Search for a file on your system called smb.conf (most likely
in /etc/samba) and find the line that refers to "interfaces =" and
adjust there for instance I have restricted mine to only broadcast on my
lan (eth0) by setting this variable to interfaces =
192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0 (adjust for your local ip!)

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 20:43 -0800, Tom ve7did wrote:

> 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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