port 445 ?

[Murray Taylor]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 10:14, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:01 AM -0800 faisal gillani 
> <fasi_74 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > i use samba on my freebsd server to share files , i
> > dont use any active directory connectivity still the
> > port "445/tcp    open        microsoft-ds" is open , i
> > read is some where that this port should be close as
> > it is dangerous to the server , is this true ?
> >
> Port 445 is the CIFS port, which is used by the newer MS systems 
> (2000,XP,2003) for networking.  Like any networking port, it should not be 
> exposed to the Internet.  The port itself doesn't represent a risk, but 
> there's no reason to make it available to the internet anyway.
> 
Judging by the > 300 probes / 12 hours to this port that I log
in my /var/log/firewall files, I would _definately_ close the hole.

port 81 is a Windows network port also that should be closed.

 
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