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Hello I'm running Samba 3.6.6 on a Linux host on a LAN connected to the Net, with my ADSL modem acting as firewall/router so as to keep local services like Samba unaccessible from the Net. Still, I wanted to check if it's safe to have nmbd reachable from 0.0.0.0 on UDP137/138: ~# netstat -tunlp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1917/smbd tcp 0 0 192.168.0.15:445 0...

...> I'm running Samba 3.6.6 on a Linux host on a LAN connected to the > Net, with my ADSL modem acting as firewall/router so as to keep local > services like Samba unaccessible from the Net. > > Still, I wanted to check if it's safe to have nmbd reachable from > 0.0.0.0 on UDP137 0.0.0.0 in this context refers to the default route, so yes it is safe, I would be more worried about the fact you are still using a version of Samba that went EOL quite some time ago ;-) For more info on 0.0.0.0, see here: https://www.howtogeek.com/225487/what-is-the-difference-between-127.0.0....