port 445 ?

[Marty Landman]

At 10:01 AM 1/23/2005, faisal gillani wrote:
>i use samba on my freebsd server to share files , i dont use any active 
>directory connectivity still the port 
>"445/tcp    open        microsoft-ds" is open , i read is some where that 
>this port should be close as it is dangerous to the server , is this true ?

Hi Faisal,

Are you running the newest Samba? I think this is relatively new because I 
run fbsd 4.8 and rh 9, both have samba but fbsd is running the new 3.0.10 
and rh is running an older 2.x version. Here are my (persistent) 
connections on my win xp gateway:

System:4        TCP     delliver:3033   penguin:netbios-ssn     ESTABLISHED 

System:4        TCP     delliver:3034   swamisalami:microsoft-ds 
ESTABLISHED


Notice that the connection is to netbios-ssn on the rh box running samba 
2.x, but to microsoft-ds which afaik is port 445 for the fbsd box running 
samba 3.0.10. TBH I don't know which port is being kept open for rh, so 
maybe this is of no help at all.

Well it helps me a little to repeat the bit that I do know. :)

Marty


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