topic Re: Disabling NetBios in Operating System - HP-UX

Disabling NetBios

dictum9 — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:08:24 GMT

This is on HP-UX 11.23

In /etc/services, netbios_ns runs on port 137, netbios_dgm on port 138 and netbios_ssn runs on port 139.

However, when I do netstat -an, the only port which shows up is 139.

Re: Disabling NetBios

dictum9 — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:09:25 GMT

I need to disable NetBios, what' the best way of doing that? Modifying /etc/services file and commenting out all the ports?

Will it impact samba?

Re: Disabling NetBios

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:11:51 GMT

Shalom etc,

Samba can run without netbios. You don't need to modify /etc/services

modify /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf

Find and change the winbind parameter to disabled or comment it out.

/sbin/init.d/samba stop
/sbin/ini.d/samba start

Then you are done.

If you are on a winbind network with windows clients, you will by doing this possibly break samba connectivity.

SEP

Re: Disabling NetBios

dictum9 — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:40:13 GMT

I cannot find the "winbind" parameter anywhere in that file.
I did however find the following:

"netbios name = "

Are you saying that I disable NetBios from /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf ?

Re: Disabling NetBios

dictum9 — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:04:26 GMT

P.S. I don't want to just reconfigure samba to not use NetBios, I also want to turn NetBios ports (137,138 and 139) off.