NetBIOS-free SMB protocol on port 445 in Windows 2000/XP
Andrew Tridgell
tridge at samba.org
Fri Aug 31 23:16:50 GMT 2001
> No. Only in the old TNG branch (unless Andrew added server side code last
> week to HEAD). Definitely not in release versions.
well, you can run just about any version of Samba on port 445 if you
use inetd. I use the following:
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /home/tridge/prefix/sbin/smbd smbd
445 stream tcp nowait root /home/tridge/prefix/sbin/smbd smbd
We do need to add support for 445 when running as a daemon, but in the
meantime if you do need 445 support for some reason then the above
will work. It also works running in mixed inetd-server mode, where it
listens on 139 as a daemon and 445 via inetd.
The reason this works is that Samba has never really cared if the
client sends a NBT session request or not. That means the smbd code
works "out of the box" on 445 where the request is not sent.
Cheers, Tridge
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