Changing ports

[Simon Murcott]

Dude, don't go there ... use a virtual interface on your server and bind samba to
that interface only (much easier and more reliable).

jeremy garber wrote:

> Does anyone know how to change the:
>
> * NetBIOS Session Service (netbios-ssn/139)
> * NetBIOS Datagram Service (netbios-dgm/138)
>
> port numbers on MS NT4.0 clients?
>
> Can anyone verify that they are hardcoded in NETBT.SYS or TCPIP.SYS
> (and only there so that we might have a possibility of modifying them)?
>
> We've found the registry entry for the NetBIOS Name Service (netbios-ns/137):
> HKLM\system\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters\NameServerPort
>
> We want to do final testing of newer versions of samba and samba-tng on a
> machine (only 1 NIC) on which we already have samba in production.

Regards

Simon Murcott
S.Murcott at optimation.co.nz

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