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Outgoing calls to port 139
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:46 pm
by Fat Cat
I'm running a ZoneAlarm firewall and it keeps telling me that my coputer is trying to connect to port 139 on a large number of other computers on my LAN. Is this normal network activity or something that I should be concerned about ?
The computer is running Windows XP and has the enable NetBios over IPX running.
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Outgoing calls to port 139
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:52 pm
by Red Squirrel
I think it's normal, it's just poling for activity such as new shares, printers and such.
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Outgoing calls to port 139
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:09 am
by Anonymous
ye 139 is netbios port wich is now only used to communicate with older windows puters over a lan such as win95, 98 etc so I guess if u block that port or disable the netbios I dont think it'll do u any harm unless u are sharing stuff with other puters on yer lan that u know use older OS.
I could be totaly wrong tho
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Outgoing calls to port 139
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:41 am
by Red Squirrel
Nope you`re right. Soif you don`t use file and print share you are safe to disable netbios. It`s also used for other networking services but it`s pretty much mostly for file sharing.
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