Tech Tip Tuesday: Securing Samba

Tomorrow marks the ONE year anniversary of Cyber Hui's Tech Tip Tuesday.  Thanks to Jake Ross, Jason Yeo and whoever else contributed.

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This week's TTT focuses on Securing Samba.

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients." Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.

The following articles provide guidance on securing Samba.

How to Secure Samba (dated, but still relevant)
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/securing-samba.html

Securing a Samba File and Print Server
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/samba-fileprint-security.html

Secure SMB Connections
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/misc_network_security/Secure-SMB-Connections.html

Linux command to check for guest access to your shares.
grep -i "guest ok = yes" /etc/samba/smb.conf

Linux command to check for SMB client signing
grep signing /etc/samba/smb.conf

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