[Samba] Port 7

[Anthony Accurso]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:20:52AM -0500, Anthony Accurso wrote:
> > I am running Samba 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 and /proc/version states "Linux
> > version 2.6.28-15-server (buildd at yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu
> > 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 20:09:37 UTC 2009".  Recently,
> > to support a new client on my home network (running Windows 7 RTM 32-bit), I
> > modified my smb.conf file.  The Windows 7 client had refused to connect to
> > Samba with an error stating "More data available."  Prompt Googling of this
> > issue returned a workaround involving adding "smb ports = 139" to my config
> > file.  Everything seemed to work fine since the change, except I noticed
> > that Samba is now listening on TCP port 7.  This port is historically used
> > by inetd or xinetd running an ECHO service.  I have confirmed that it is
> > definitely Samba listening on port 7, and that Samba is now echoing data
> > sent to that port.
> >
> > In short, why does Samba open TCP port 7 and run an ECHO service when "smb
> > ports = 139" is specified in the configuration file?
>
> How did you confirm that it's Samba listening there?
>
> Volker
>
Output of "fuser 7/tcp" identifies PID 650.  Output of "ps 650"
identifies "/usr/sbin/smbd -D".  That's the hard way.  The easy way
was stopping Samba and watching port 7 close (via nmap).