At 20:19 27.10.2002, Wolfgang Pfeiffer said:
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>So what is this "Windows probing port 137" thing .. does this mean
>every Windows home user machine on WWW probes other machines it thinks
>are part of its LAN or so?
>
>Darkness ... :)
>In anticipation thanks for some light ...
>
>Wolfgang
>
>
>Excerpt from my /var/log/messages:
>
>########################################
>Oct 27 18:47:32 <machine name> kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0
>PROTO=17 64.132.240.103:1025 80.138.166.77:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=29395
>F=0x0000 T=116 (#1)
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Ports 137,138,139, and 445 are used for NetBios traffic. Windows hosts use
these ports to publish and to query NetBios information (such as master
browser broadcasts and queries) as well as connecting to shares and RPC
services.
BTW, Samba uses this, too (of course),
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