Guy, you are confusing NetBEUI (not routable) with NetBIOS (routable via NBT - NetBIOS Transport or NetBIOS over TCP/IP). NetBIOS is routed over the following ports:
netbios-ns 137/tcp NETBIOS Name Service netbios-ns 137/udp NETBIOS Name Service netbios-dgm 138/tcp NETBIOS Datagram Service netbios-dgm 138/udp NETBIOS Datagram Service netbios-ssn 139/tcp NETBIOS Session Service netbios-ssn 139/udp NETBIOS Session Service microsoft-ds 445/tcp Microsoft-DS microsoft-ds 445/udp Microsoft-DS wins 1512/tcp Microsoft Windows Internet Name Service wins 1512/udp Microsoft Windows Internet Name Service If you don't want all of your Windows systems accessible via the Internet, then these ports should be block both inbound and outbound at your firewall or gateway router. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Guy Isabel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 11:56 AM To: IMail Forum Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Primary Host Name > One more thing: the name you select *will* be the "TCP/IP hostname of the > machine". What it won't be is the Microsoft Networking (NetBIOS) name. And one last thing in an effort to make it clear that what MS suggests (using the NetBIOS name) is irrelevant: The Internet is not platform (OS) dependent. Most servers run some flavor of Unix, others the Mac OS, etc. And this platform independence is made possible by using open standards such as TCP/IP, not a proprietary MS standard such as NetBIOS which is, by the way, not even routable :) So, the Internet doesn't care one whit about your machine's NetBIOS name. So there :)) Guy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- [This e-mail was scanned for viruses by Pointshare's Virus Scanning Service] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
