139 is exclusively a Microsoft port because their NetBIOS services run on it
And on many Windows boxes it is open
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Bilal Muddassir
The Khwarzimic Science Society
http://www.khwarzimic.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adityan S.Murthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Linux India" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 8:29 PM
Subject: [LIH] Linux and internet security
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?
Adityan
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