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Simon Waters wrote: > > Obviously SMB2 is a lot more complex than SMTP or ESMTP, but it seems > here that Microsoft have just screwed up big time with the > implementation. It would be funny except in a couple of years this will > be how most office networks "work". I think the Checkpoint article is largely irrelevant, no sane person is going to expose Microsoft's office networking protocols to the Internet. The primary danger of these kinds of weaknesses is they'll be exploited internally. I guess if you are the kind of organisation that deploys Checkpoint firewalls between say Office client systems and servers, it might help. But I've never seen such an organisation, and I've seen quite a lot. I know some such organisations exist, and it wouldn't surprise me if some big financial institutions do that sort of thing internally (probably mostly for monitoring). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html