--On Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:01 AM -0800 faisal gillani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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