Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

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Subject: Re: is it rational to close the 139 port
From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:36:24 -0500
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On 7/22/2012 2:25 AM, lina wrote:

Hi Lina,

> strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open.
> 
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:445             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:139             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

These ports are used by Samba.  If you want these ports closed simply
disable the Samba service.  If you need Samba, leave the ports open.  If
you don't know what Samba is:

http://www.samba.org/

-- 
Stan

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