samba - Jun 2007 - Opening "Printers" causes incoming packets from different ports

When I open the "Printers and Faxes" folder in Windows to view print
queues my firewall gets a bunch of incoming packets from the server each
from an ever increasing port number.  (It is now up to 32840.)  These
are going to local ports 139 and 445. (The netbios ports.)

Is this normal behavior?  Should I be allowing these access to the system?

Thanks in advance

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Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> When I open the "Printers and Faxes" folder in Windows 
> to view print queues my firewall gets a bunch of incoming
> packets from the server each from an ever increasing port
> number.  (It is now up to 32840.)  These
> are going to local ports 139 and 445. (The netbios ports.)
> 
> Is this normal behavior?  Should I be allowing these 
> access to the system?
This is due to the Windows async printer change notify
protocol.  It's up to you whether or not you want to
open the firewall on the client.  Won't break printing.
May mean that the Windows print queue monitor app
doesn't refresh well.



cheers, jerry
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