Comments on: Eee PC Default Xandros Vulnerable To Hacking

By: oliwek

oliwek — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:08:20 +0000

edit : well sorry, everything is here in the wiki :
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:sambasecurityfix

By: oliwek

oliwek — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:57:35 +0000

to update samba to solve this security issue, just type in terminal the command lines from this (french) site : (as of today, end of april, no asus or simple synaptic update available)

http://forum.inforeseau.com/faille-de-securite-samba-partage-windows-sur-eee-t147.html

kudos to him

By: dannomaxx

dannomaxx — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:46:51 +0000

HI at all,
i’ve executed apt-get update and apt-get install samba …

but after the installation, samba version is the same.. 3.0.24 why this?
There aren’t the upgraded packages or is coz i’ve forgotted something?

thanku all

By: Tqh (newB)

Tqh (newB) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:14:12 +0000

I’ve got two sessions of smbd running on my eee pc. Tris’s commands didn’t stop it or disable it from starting up. Moreover, I can’t delete the directory that the smbd file is contained in. Have I been rooted out of my own computer?

By: I Learned It Online » Saga of an Asus Eee User - Day 1

I Learned It Online » Saga of an Asus Eee User - Day 1 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:11:18 +0000

[...] more comportable with. From here I got email set up and went ahead and disabled Samba due to the security threat. I also copied over most of my eBooks and few .avi files. Then my wife came home and basically [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:58:02 +0000

Thanks for all the advice to everyone !

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:32:01 +0000

OK! I commented out (i.e. preceded with a “#”) the following lines from /usr/sbin/services.sh:
mkdir -p /tmp/.samba
/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d samba start

After re-starting the system, Samba is no longer running. Thanks, everyone, for your help!

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:37:02 +0000

Oops! I obviously missed MValdez post about stopping it automatically loading via the /usr/sbin/services.sh file

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:30:35 +0000

Putting an entry into rc.local doesn’t work, so for now I have made the samba process non-executable (so it doesn’t start up at boot):

sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/samba

When I get home from work today, I am going to try and update samba to 3.0.28.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:03:26 +0000

Chris: Correct, it is still ruinning. To stop it, you need to run:

sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop

Also, I tried Tris’ update-rc.d -f command, and it removes samba links from the rc*.d yet samba still runs after a reboot? I don’t have any more time to look into it tonight, but is samba perhaps being started from another place? As a quick and nasty way to stop it I guess I could put the /etc/init.d/samba stop in /etc/rc.local