Disable wsdd service

The Web Search Discovery host Daemon allow to discover hosts in a windows network. It uses ports 3702/udp and 5357/tcp. But this service reveals information that we could want to void, because it makes easier the discovery and recognition in a network.

This service is not managed by systemd, but exists a way to disable it, by using gsettings command.

So to disable the service run:

gsettings set org.gnome.system.wsdd display-mode 'disabled'

You could need to reboot, but after that, you should not see the service listening on port 3702/udp and 5357/tcp.

See you on the next post!

References

https://github.com/christgau/wsdd https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/753