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[kopete] how do i disable smbclient scans?

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Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 6:16pm

[kopete] how do i disable smbclient scans?

Hi,

I am using kopete in debian etch (kde 3.5.5) at work and it continuously spawns smbclient processes. I suppose that kopete is performing some kind of network scanning. However, the network administrators here dislike this behavior due to completely understandable reasons (i do not want to discuss them here).

Is there some configuration or run option to disable this behavior? I tried to find some info. with no luck.

Thanks in advance!

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Tuesday, April 24th 2007, 9:37pm

I wonder why kopete would do such a thing, being an instant messenger, not a client that needs to communicate over smb.

I think the best thing to do is ask the developers if kopete spawns smbclient and for what purpose, and how to switch it off.
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Wednesday, April 25th 2007, 11:00am

I think that it tries to discover peers of the winpopup protocol. It does this even if you set that you want to stay offline! The winpopup protocol does not appear in the plugin list window. I tried to disable it from the command line "-disable winpopup" without effect...

You can check it from the command line using pstree, for example. smbclient appears to me a children process of kopete. Although I think that this will be more easily detected in large networks, where the scanning takes more time.

Should i report this as a bug? I asked first here because i did not want to bother developers if this behavior can be disabled using some configuration parameter or using the command line.

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Thursday, April 26th 2007, 9:32am

I think i figured out the solution

in kopeterc:

[Plugins]
kopete_autoreplaceEnabled=false
kopete_connectionstatusEnabled=true
kopete_contactnotesEnabled=false
kopete_cryptographyEnabled=false
kopete_highlightEnabled=false
kopete_historyEnabled=false
kopete_icqEnabled=true
kopete_ircEnabled=false
kopete_jabberEnabled=true
kopete_msnEnabled=true
kopete_nowlisteningEnabled=false
kopete_texteffectEnabled=false
kopete_translatorEnabled=false
kopete_webpresenceEnabled=false
kopete_wpEnabled=false
kopete_yahooEnabled=true

I think that calling kopete from the command line: "kopete --disable wp" does the same work.

It is a bit strange, but the winpopup plugin does not appear in my plugin list. Also, I was looking for "smb" or "winpopup" in the config, instead of "wp", too cryptic.

Thanks for your help!