Jun 10, 2020
How disabled Port 135-139, and Disabled Port 445 in Mar 12, 2013 Penetration Testing in SMB Protocol using Metasploit (Port Aug 14, 2016
(SMB is known as "Samba" and stands for "Server Message Blocks".) After all of the trouble the personal computer industry has had with Microsoft's original Windows NetBIOS ports 137 through 139, it is difficult to imagine or believe that Microsoft could have actually made things significantly worse with their replacement port 445 . . . but they
If I want to allow Windows networked drives between two firewalled computers, do I need to open ports 137-139, or is port 445 sufficient? I have to submit a form and get approval to open firewall ports, and I don't want to ask for more open ports than I need. All of the machines here are Windows XP or later.
May 18, 2017
May 17, 2017 · This is so strongly recommended, in fact, that an advisory posted in January 2017 by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recommends blocking “all versions of Server Message Block (SMB) at the network boundary by blocking TCP port 445 with related protocols on UDP ports 137-138 and TCP port 139, for all boundary