Ports

Phil Mayers p.mayers at ic.ac.uk
Mon Mar 27 08:32:38 GMT 2000


You might want 445 as well (NetBIOS-less SMB).

Cheers,
Phil

Lars Kneschke wrote:
> 
> Matthew Geddes wrote:
> >
> > > Mike wrote:
> > >
> > > I am running Linux/SAMBA on a file server. All works well. Whilst
> > > monitoring network traffic I note a lot of traffic from an NT4.0 box
> > > hitting the Linux box on port 137. Anyone know what it is trying to
> > > do?
> > >
> > > Also, I am setting up a firewall, hence the monitoring. Where can I
> > > find a list of ports I need to keep available for SAMBA to work.
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> > I'm pretty sure port 137 is the NetBIOS name service. So it's probably
> > WINS or browse list traffic? Someone else would know for sure.
> Port's 137-139 should be enough.
> 
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