On Fri, May 30, 2036 at 09:57:44PM +0200, Adityan S.Murthy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A friend of mine has a port scanning s/w and when we were online, he scanned
> my ports and found that port 139 or something was wide open (i was running
> win98). He could also browse through my directories. Is such an insecurity
> there in Linux?
No. Port 139 is used by samba and friends. If you've configured it properly,
unauthorized people can not look into your filesystem.
-Arun
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