[Samba] Port 139 versus Port 445

[Javid Abdul-AJAVID1]

am curious and need to configure this and test, any ideas how to make it
work, i mean how do start 2 smbd parent process
is it port based or something else

samba technical group please comment on this if you get chance
thanks in advance

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:47 PM
To: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Port 139 versus Port 445


I suspect that you can have two smbd's running. Each one will spawn other
daemons as needed, I THINK.
Joel

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote:
> I am just curious of running 2 smbds, as i think one parent smbd process
> runs on 139 and all others are children
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:32 PM
> To: Jason Joines; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Port 139 versus Port 445
> 
> 
> Just making all this stuff up off the top of my head.
> I have never done this, but you could try:
> Running two smbd daemon, each listening to different ports.
> Redirecting traffic from port 445 to 139 with some firewall rules. I
> redirect
> traffic with ipmasqadm, but there are surely others.
> Running smbd with (x)inetd and have it listen  to both ports.
> Likely, the delay is because the W2K clients are waiting for a reply,
> and finally timing out on port 445. Why not try something funky like
> having telnet or apache listen on port 445. Maybe that will tell the
client
> right
> away to try a different port, like 139.
> Let us know how this works out, if you try any of this stuff.
> Joel
> 
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:04:41PM -0500, Jason Joines wrote:
> >      I've noticed that my W2K clients connect to Samba much more quickly

> > if I run it on port 445 instead of 139.  However, my WNT clients then 
> > won't connect at all.  I read somewhere that it was possible to forward 
> > the requests on port 139 to port 445.  Anyone know how to do this or how

> > to listen to both ports simultaneously?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jason Joines
> > Open Source = Open Mind
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