[jcifs] Using port 445 instead of 139 with NtlmHttpFilter

[Michael B Allen]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:43:12 -0500
"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:20:10AM -0400, Eric Glass wrote:
> > jCIFS 0.9.6 adds the infrastructure necessary to generate/verify
> > challenges from a port other than 139, although the filter itself
> > doesn't have an option to use this functionality currently.  The
> > bigger issue for you is that 445 is special; it uses "naked" SMB. 
> > Normal SMB (port 139) is "SMB over NetBIOS over TCP".  445 is SMB over
> > TCP (without NetBIOS "encapsulation").  I believe Mike was at one
> > point looking at support for this?  I'm not sure the level of effort
> > involved though.
> 
> There are no real differences between port 139 and 445 behavior with
> regard to SMB transport.  Naked transport still uses the same four-byte
> header introduced with NBT transport (back in RFC1001/1002).
> 
> The semantic differences have to do with:
> - The NBT naming system (UDP port 137) which, of course, disappears when
>   using port 445.
> 
> - NetBIOS-based services such as the Browse Service also disappear over
>   port 445.  Eg., you can't count on RAP calls working if NBT isn't 
>   running.

The port 445 work was not completed. It was a reasonably complicated
operation to get both 139 and 445 to work together smoothly so I didn't
pursue it too hard. There's no ETA.

Mike


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