Re: Nimda and Samba shares

From: Gerald Carter (gcarter@VALINUX.COM)
Date: 09/19/01


Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109182126060.21008-100000@pogo.plainjoe.org>
Date:         Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:29:02 -0500
From: Gerald Carter <gcarter@VALINUX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Nimda and Samba shares
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Avinesh Bangar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that open Samba (Linux) shares are also affected -- possibly
> because the Samba server is emulated as a Windows NT 4.2 Server? I
> just searched the shares for *.eml and *.nws and deleted the
> respective files. It seems as though not all shares were affected,
> just the ones that had FTP access.

After talking to a few people it seems I was wrong. Apparently
it tries to drop its files onto CIFS/SMB servers by logging in
as guest. If Samba had a valid user named guest with no password,
then it would suceed ...

or if you have "map to guest" in smb.conf set to anything other
than the default of "Never", you might see this as well. Of course,
this also assumes that "guest" has write access to shares.

Apologies for the previous hasty and incorrect response. Hope this
helps.

cheers, jerry
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