IT phoning Home?

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Little snitch tells me that NMBD is trying to contact Brazil, Italy, France and Jamaica - among other places. So what's that all about?

I figure they must be cookies, so I deleted them, but NMBD continued to misbehave. I recognized one of the places as the server of a friend's email addy, so I thought it must be an ad from the mail, but it's hard to find the right thing to throw away in my eudora folder.

I don't wannadoo any more reporting to France ;)

What will happen if I take away NMBD's surfing privileges forever?
 
Just because something is phoning home or is brought to your attention by Little Snitch doesn't mean that it's misbehaving -- in fact, phoning home is technically behaving properly.

Here's a page on UNIX's nmbd:
http://www.hmug.org/man/8/nmbd.html

It may have something to do with samba. I have no idea what'll happen if you disallow nmbd from phoning home... you can try it, then remove the block from Little Snitch later if it causes problems, no?
 
nmbd is a program that allows netbios names to be mapped. The problem with it "calling home" will probably stop the name mapping with Windows filesharing working. It's not a problem though, and I'd probably leave it if I were you.

Rob
 
So I turned off windows file sharing and Little Snitch shut up. I don't usually have to connect to Windows machines, so I'll leave it off.

Just a clarification - Windows file sharing pref means a Windows machine can see me, right? I can still see windows shares, even if it's off, right?
 
Little Snitch blocks outgoing, not incoming, so it's seeing your machine trying to see/connect to other machines. It's not telling you someone is trying to get into your machine.
 
I think you should still be able to connect to Windows machines - it wouldn't disable the client programs, just the persistently running server programs.

Of course, I'm guessing - no access to a Windows box.
 
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