What is microsoft-ds port 445?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 11 December 2006 at 11:06:12 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:43 AM, a at zeos.net wrote:
>> What is microsoft-ds port #445?
>
> Mildly off-topic for this list, but it's used by directory-services,
> aka "Active Directory"....

I don't know that it's that off-topic.  I don't use Microsoft, but
people bombard me with packets on port 445.

Of course, the way to find this out is:

  $ grep 445 /etc/services
  microsoft-ds    445/tcp
  microsoft-ds    445/udp
  $

On Monday, 11 December 2006 at 12:13:50 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
> Next time, please google. There are a plethora of documents on this topic.
> See <http://www.petri.co.il/what's_port_445_in_w2k_xp_2003.htm> for
> starters.

You can find lots of things on Google, including false leads and
(especially) other people asking the same question.  Many of them
(hopefully not the false leads) refer to messages that have gone by on
this list.  Come back tomorrow and you'll probably find this exchange
there.

In summary: I think this message was on-topic.

Greg
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