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To clarify. They're blocking the SMB ports for external traffic.
This is a good thing. The reason they're doing it is two fold.
1. It keeps network traffic down due to people inadvertantly
sharing their system to the world.
2. Its a small measure of security for the home user.
A friend was on their pilot program. People used to scan and
try to get into systems all the time. If they _didn't_ block
those ports, a good number of people would be in a bad position.
Your average home user knows nothing about "file sharing" and
whatnot.
Further, if this is an issue and you want to enable SMB access to
your system for god knows whatever reason, you should setup
SMB over SSL. To my knowlege SSL isnt blocked.
J.
When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
attitude.
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 umweber@mcs.drexel.edu wrote:
> This is for the person who asked about Suburban@home cable service.
> I have had it since july, with absolutely no problems, it's fast and
> reliable. (Although of course I did have to put a windows box in the room
> I wanted it to be for them to install it). But there is one huge problem,
> Ports 137, 138, 139, and 1080 are blocked, so if you wanna set up a home
> network with Windows involved, or use samba, I think it may be a problem.
> I tried using scour media agent (http://www.scour.net) to get some files
> through, this client uses perl and samba to do so, and was unable to
> because of port 139 being blocked. (It downloads files of of Windows
> shares).. Which is how I found out about this little "issue"
> I get they want to discourage you from setting up a network, and would
> rather you buy additional IPs at $9.95/mo
>
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:06:29 -0400
> From: Support@Suburban.com
> To: michelle <mbw22@home.com>
> Subject: Port Blocking
>
>
>
> Dear @Home Subscriber,
>
> Yes, these ports are blocked. There is no ETA on whether these ports will
> be made available anytime soon. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you
> while using our service. Any other questions please feel free to contact us at
> 1.888.398.4547 between the hours of 7:00am to 12:00pm.
>
>
> Technical Support Staff
> Support@Suburban.com
>
>
>
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