Has smbclient behavior changed from 2.2.8a to 3.0.0?

Simo Sorce simo.sorce at xsec.it
Mon Nov 3 23:46:52 GMT 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:27, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> Um...
> 
> Note that you're talking to port 445!
> 
> Port 445 doesn't do NetBIOS.  No NetBIOS names, no NBT.
> 
> Not sure why your system is talking to port 445, but it's the wrong port 
> for the kind of query you are trying to do.
> 
> Could be a bug in the way smbclient tries to connect to a remote host.

Yes, afaik smbclient now tries 445 first by default.
Probably we should find out a way to tell smbclient to not use 445 when
-L switch is issued and instead go directly to port 139.

Simo.
 
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