On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:22:43PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > I know it's rather silly to reply on your on post, but I did some more > research... It seems that our M$ using friends have some problems. > Win2k/XP have a filesharing protocol on 445, and because most users of > M$ products are so enlightend to choose a blank admin password, this > is a security issue.
Right, I think it's SMB file sharing without NetBIOS. Some ISPs block off the netbios ports for the same reason. I don't know of any other standard services running on those ports, so it's rarely an issue. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
