Very Computer

While scanning my local network, i found that machine, running freshly
installed Windows XP has *TOO MUCH* open ports. When turned off
unnesesary services, the following list of ports were still open:
135/tcp    open        loc-srv
135/udp    open        loc-srv
137/udp    open        netbios-ns
138/udp    open        netbios-dgm
139/tcp    open        netbios-ssn
445/tcp    open        microsoft-ds
445/udp    open        microsoft-ds
1025/tcp   open        listen
1026/udp   open        unknown

I think all this open potrs (except netbios) are unnesesary for client
machine, but i don't know for what purpose they are open, and how to close
them (whithout using firewall).
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Those are Netbios and direct hosted SMB Services used for file and printer
sharing. If you do not need them, you can turn off the netbios binding from
the network adapter. To close the direct hosted netbios port 445 more work is
needed.

Quote:> 1025/tcp   open        listen

it is not shure what is running here, there can be different services.

Quote:> 1026/udp   open        unknown

most of the time this is the scheduler, you can disable the service.

Greetings
Bernd

Quote:>While scanning my local network, i found that machine, running freshly
>installed Windows XP has *TOO MUCH* open ports.

what does this have to do with security in a unix context?  please read
your system's documentation, microsoft's on-line security pages, or use
a more appropriate newsgroup.

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