Re: ISPs are blocking port 445?
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:22:43PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> I know it's rather silly to reply on your on post, but I did some more
> research... It seems that our M$ using friends have some problems.
> Win2k/XP have a filesharing protocol on 445, and because most users of
> M$ products are so enlightend to choose a blank admin password, this
> is a security issue.
Right, I think it's SMB file sharing without NetBIOS. Some ISPs block
off the netbios ports for the same reason. I don't know of any other
standard services running on those ports, so it's rarely an issue.
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Michael Heironimus
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