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Daniel Pavel wrote:
| I've seen this issue come up over and over on the mailing list, and yet | never make it in the FAQ. At some point I've slammed into it as well, | and had to solve it. | | Don't exactly remember where I've found the solution, but it goes | something like this: | | Windows (XP?) tries to connect on both ports 139 and 445, not knowing | what SMB version the remote machine supports. When it makes a | successful connection on one of the ports (139), it drops the other, and | samba gets noisy about it.
It normally drops the connection to port 139.
| It you have a mixed windows environment (XP's, and older ones), you | might need both ports open. But if you only have XP's, you can safely | put a | smb ports = 139 | in your samba.conf file, and the useless messages will dissapear. Even | if you have a mixed environment, you should probably try this and see | how it goes. | | I am quite sure I got the actual technical details rather wrong -- I've | read about this a long time ago, so please, somebody correct me. | However, I am also quite sure the solution works :).
Your explanation was pretty much spot on.
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