[Samba] Too many 445 and 139 packets

[Josh Kelley]

On 16 Aug 2007 19:17:00 +0200, Helmut Hullen <Hullen at t-online.de> wrote:
> And you shoudn't allow 445 - together with 139 (?) it produces other
> error messages, even listed in the Samba documentation.

Port 445 is SMB over TCP/IP.  In theory, at least, it's preferable to
port 139 (SMB over NetBIOS over TCP/IP), since there's no NetBIOS
overhead.  While permitting both 445 and 139 causes error messages,
the errors are completely and totally harmless (see
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Myths), and IMO it's not worth
disabling the more efficient TCP port 445.

Josh Kelley