Take the 2-minute tour ×  I don't need any
broadcasting/autodiscovery, everything is deterministic and
strictly configured in my nets. I drop trash SAMBA broadcasts by
firewall anyway, can't I just disable them to keep my network
traffic clean?  share|improve this question 1. You wil get
better answers if you indicate your OS and version, and Samba
version as well. 2. Does Samba generate enough broadcast traffic
that it actually causes anything bad to happen? In other words,
why are you worried about this? –  mfinni Jun 29 '10 at 2:05 No
problem there is, but I'd like only meaningful traffic to take
place - just for tidiness. The OS is Ubuntu 10.04 Serer x64,
SAMBA is the standard one from the repo. –  Ivan Jun 29 '10 at
4:49  2 Answers 2  up vote 2 down vote accepted  Kill nmbd  edit
your rc/init scripts that launch smbd and nmbd so they don't run
nmbd. nmbd is the automatic discovery component of samba.
Disabling it will cut down on the traffic.   share|improve this
answer  In Debian at least, you could use