[Samba] Transport endpoint is not connected

[William Jojo]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> Daniel Pavel wrote:
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> | I've seen this issue come up over and over on the mailing list, and yet
> | never make it in the FAQ.  At some point I've slammed into it as well,
> | and had to solve it.
> |
> | Don't exactly remember where I've found the solution, but it goes
> | something like this:
> |
> | Windows (XP?) tries to connect on both ports 139 and 445, not knowing
> | what SMB version the remote machine supports.   When it makes a
> | successful connection on one of the ports (139), it drops the other, and
> | samba gets noisy about it.
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> It normally drops the connection to port 139.
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Here are a couple of links further describing your findings.

http://www.petri.co.il/what_is_port_445_in_w2kxp.htm

http://ntsecurity.nu/papers/port445/

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/26709/26709.html

I wonder what the Samba developers suggest as a recommended means of
setting up both Samba and the clients. (Primarily for our newbee's moving
to Samba and such :-) )



Bill


> | It you have a mixed windows environment (XP's, and older ones), you
> | might need both ports open.  But if you only have XP's, you can safely
> | put a
> |     smb ports = 139
> | in your samba.conf file, and the useless messages will dissapear.  Even
> | if you have a mixed environment, you should probably try this and see
> | how it goes.
> |
> | I am quite sure I got the actual technical details rather wrong -- I've
> | read about this a long time ago, so please, somebody correct me.
> | However, I am also quite sure the solution works :).
>
> Your explanation was pretty much spot on.
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> cheers, jerry
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