We are planning moving forward to E2K SP3 soon. Sönke Luck KPMG Germany - Messaging Team
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Chris Scharff [mailto:chris_scharff@;messageone.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 8. November 2002 17:43 An: Exchange Discussions Betreff: RE: Netbios client sessions for Store access Haven't seen it before. Is SP4 on your radar for the Exchange server in question? > -----Original Message----- > From: "Luck, Sönke" [mailto:soenkeluck@;kpmg.com] > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 3:18 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > > We've had a strange problem this week, maybe anybody has seen a similiar > thing before. We noticed Outlook clients starting to open Netbios sessions > over port 139 on two of our Exchange servers. Version used are 5.5 SP3 and > Outlook 2000. > > Normally Outlook sends a request on port 135 and gets two ports for DS and > IS access. There are Q articles on this topic, describing how to > configured > this ports to be fixed for configurations for access thru firewalls. All > Exchange servers are configured to use fixed high port numbers 1250 and > 1251 > for DS and IS access at our site. This works fine for a long time, but two > servers stopped using port 1251 for IS access a few days ago. > > We worked on this with PSS, and they found a solution - reboot the servers > ;-)) > > What happened? For some reason, that we - and even Microsoft PSS - didn't > know, on two of our mailbox servers the store process stopped listening on > port 1251. Outlook uses a fallback and opens a Netbios session on port > 139. > Via this connection, all further communication to and from the store is > routed via the system process on the Exchange Server. This works without > any > problems for the clients - as far they can access the server on port 139. > Under normal circumstances this port is not necessary for client access. > > We checked the registered services on the Exchange Server using > rpcdump.exe > and found out that the store is registered correctly on port 1251. > Connection attempts by the clients are rejected immediately. Stopping and > starting the store fixes this behaviour. As mentioned before - we > currently > don't know how we ran into this situation. All server configuration > settings > are correct (and even the same as on all other servers in the site), the > problem only occurred on one location in a time frame where a lot of > network > changes has been done. > > Any comments? > > > Sönke Luck > KPMG Germany - Messaging Team > > > -- > Die Information in dieser eMail ist vertraulich und kann dem > Berufsgeheimnis unterliegen. Sie ist ausschliesslich fuer den Adressaten > bestimmt. 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