On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Philipp Rusch wrote:
> My experience in my customers networks is such:
> WinXP clients and W2K SP4 Clients *can* use  port 445 only, *if* you 
> take care
> about your network configuration: servers need to be in an ADS in 
> non-compatibility mode
> (no NT4 anywhere), this is possible with W2K Server SP4 and W2K3 Server 
> R1 and R2.
> no NetBIOS name resolution, DNS only, this means no WINS-Server, no 
> workgroup-access,
> use domain-access only, no local file or printer sharing, server side 
> shares only.

If you manage to arrange things so that *none* of these things happen,
you're much luckier than me. It's infuriatingly hard to run a
non-trivial network without any legacy crud floating
around. Eliminating all the stuff you list could conceivably be enough
to stop it - but I doubt we'll ever really know for sure.

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