Some information about Windows Direct Hosting (port 445) can be found at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q204279
Here you will see that, by disabling port 445 (direct hosting), all traffic
reverts back to NBT.
From what I can see, Direct Hosting is no more
On one XP Pro client, I disabled WINS (removed the address of the WINS
server), so name resolution is done by broadcast. In doing an ethernet
trace of this client's interaction with my samba server (3.0.2a), I
noticed that there was no traffic on port 445. All data traffic was on
port 139. Is
