I see thousands more scans against port 138 than I do against port 5800 or
5900. Yes, if you limit your exposure, that's true and you absolutely have
to have good passwords that are changed often. And you have to make
absolutely sure that you haven't forgotten to patch something that leaves
port 138 vulnerable to a known hack.
Just because port 138 is well known, it scares me to open it more than VNC.
There are lots more attempts against port 138 than VNC.
Lyle
-----Original Message-----
From: David Rothman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mapping a remote drive
yes..clearly it means opening a port, but with a smart
password, is it any different that opening a port for VNC or
ftp for that matter?
in fact, if u only open one drive or one directory to the
world, might it not be even safer?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: RE: mapping a remote drive
> That means opening up netbios to the world(port 138). NOT
a smart idea.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rothman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: mapping a remote drive
>
>
> with vnc, when you want to talk to machine(x) which is
> behind a router, the router needs to be set to forward
port
> 590x to machine(x).
>
> presumably this is also true with mapping a drive (using
win
> 2000 pro)
> on a machine behind a router, but the syntax is not
obvious
> to
> me. i would think it's an argument to the \\server\share
> syntax. does anyone know what it is? thanks..
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