Reply to post: Amazing you can leave the SMB port open

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Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge

Amazing you can leave the SMB port open

I'd like to run SMB/CIFS file sharing but that port is such a bot magnet that everything slows to a crawl servicing or blocking hacking attempts. It's like asking for a DDoS. Didn't anyone notice that their system was running really slowly and had multi-gigabyte log files?

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