On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > Here are a couple of links further describing your findings. http://www.petri.co.il/what_is_port_445_in_w2kxp.htm http://ntsecurity.nu/papers/port445/ http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/26709/26709.html I wonder what the Samba developers suggest as a recommended means of setting up both Samba and the clients. (Primarily for our newbee's moving to Samba and such :-) ) Bill > | 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. > > > > > > cheers, jerry > ===================================================================== > Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org > GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc > "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCLJ/SIR7qMdg1EfYRAq4MAJ93tB+Ee4urqzD/+rUqT05gYzQbCACfRO8c > eEfO94OrQ+ZcprZ3zrbbA3A= > =SOLS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
