samba - Mar 2002 - Samba serving port 445

Hello guys,

I've surfed the internet with no direct answer to my question (mainly
because
I am clueless, sorry).

A have Samba 2.2.2 running with port 139 open. I can mount Samba shares with 
mount ?-t smbfs ?-o username=xxx,password=xxx ?//x.x.x.x/share ?
/mnt/mountpoint  from another Linux box.

Using tcpdump, I can see my family's XP Windows box client machine trying to
connect through port 445. What's going on here? Is Windows file sharing
using
port 445 now? How do you set Samba to serve off port 445?

Thanks for any help. Anything at all to get me started....

ltiu

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:43:13 -0800
ltiu <ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:
> I've surfed the internet with no direct answer to my question (mainly
> because I am clueless, sorry).
Searching for "port 445" on www.google.com, I found within 'bout
47,6 seconds (4th link):

 "In Windows 2000, Microsoft has created a new transport for SMB over
  TCP and UDP on port 445. This replaces the older implementation that
  was over ports 137, 138, 139."
> How do you set Samba to serve off port 445?
I don't think you'll need to do that. WinXP can access your Samba-Server
as it can access Win-NT via the old ports. NT probabely doesn't know
anything 'bout this 445-port as it's pre-Win2k.

cu
Max

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