In a message dated: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:17:15 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
> Additionally, Media One (and other ISPs) take steps to protect the hordes of
>unknowing Windoze users they provide services to. They often configure their
>routers and firewalls to drop all traffic on ports 137-139, effectively
>disabling SMB sharing. Otherwise, all those Windows users would be sharing
>their files with the Internet at large.
Also keep in mind that you *can* in fact do an SMB scan on *your*
segment of the M1 net and still access shares. Filtering at the port
level requires going through a router, and everyone on your "street"
or segment hasn't gone through a router yet :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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