Your ISP, like myself, probably think you are a hacker. They probably shut down your access to those ports. Or maybe your "friends" have installed a firewall and forgot to let you have access. Maybe you can have your "friends" install a Trojan that will open a different port for you to telnet to.
-----Original Message----- From: Bassam ALHUSSEIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows shares ...!!!! Hello all .... I am connected to the internet through a dialup-modem connection to an ISP. this ISP gives its users dynamical IPs (non routable and it is applying NAT). I installed microsoft network client because I used to use windows shares on other users' machines (friends). this is done by doing a scan on netbios ports on the ips of those machines 10.0.0.x . I used to find dosens of machines with windows shares. suddenly, it's been several days, I can find no more machines with shares ....!! the scanner gives nothing. I thought it's a problem with my ms network client, so I reinstalled it. Still nothing ... I even used "nbtstat -A 10.0.0.x" from a DOS prompt for some IPs within that scope, but it gave " host not found ". But it gave something when I used it for my IP ...... To be more sure, I called a friend that I used to have access to his shares, and I asked to him to connect. We made a chat and he gave me his actual IP, so I made that nbtstat to his IP. But it gave "host not found". He was sure that his netbios ports (137-139) was opened and listening. By the way, he couldn't neither see me with that "nbtstat -A myIP". What could the problem be ?? I don't understand....I am a real newbie .......:-( Can the ISP do something to prohibit the access to windows shares between machine weithin it's local network ???????????? how can this be done ??? thanx verymuch for answering ...( I LOVE DETAILS if you have the time) Bisso
