We found working with the Samba team to be easy and productive, and we soon came up with a list of enhancements that would benefit both the university and the Samba user community. Performance tuning of Samba's name database . We needed a name database that would be capable of handling a large number of entries and thousands of transactions per minute. To achieve this goal, we wrote a new database module that makes better use of memory and is much faster. The code also allows alternative database modules to be added so that the nameserver can be adapted to meet different needs.
Access filters .
The lack of access filters is a common security hole in NetBIOS nameservers. Without them, anyone on the network can query or add entries to the name list. The access filters are designed to allow or deny query or registration access based on IP address, DNS domain, or combinations of these and other criteria. External references . An LMhosts file can be used to prime the name list with static entries.