Re: Vista patch breaks forwarding of port 445?

That was one of the first things I checked and it wasn't selected. I even tried a "telnet 10.0.0.222 445" and got no response, so there's nothing listening on that port, yet Vista won't let me use it. Did Microsoft break this intentionally to make SMB "safer?" I'd like to know if anyone else can reproduce the problem so I can be sure it's not unique to my machine.

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From: "Welsh, Armand" <Armand.Welsh@sscims.com>
To: ssh@erdelynet.com
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:53:49 AM
Subject: RE: Vista patch breaks forwarding of port 445?

 
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After applying the patches, check that the patch did not
bind the microsoft client service to the loopback adapter. If it did, then
you won't be able to bind to port 445, because the microsoft networking client
service is already listening on the port. When creating a loopback
interface to use only this type of purpose, you should disable (or remove) all
services, leaving only the TCP/IP protocol, and nothing else. This will
ensure you have a wide open interface, ready for 3rd party software
bindings.

Armand

From: ssh@erdelynet.com
[mailto:ssh@erdelynet.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday,
December 14, 2007 6:49 AM
To: ssh@erdelynet.com
Subject:
Vista patch breaks forwarding of port 445?

Yesterday I installed the latest set of Vista patches from Microsoft
Update. I also made a few other changes, like turning off User Account
Control. Immediately before this I was able to forward port 445 using "ssh
-L 10.0.0.222:445:localhost:445 user@server" where 10.0.0.222 is a loopback
adapter in Windows. After installing the patches I got an error message
saying port 445 could not be forwarded. So I used Windows Restore to rollback
the patches and everything worked correctly again. Looking through the
patches I'd just installed I found this one addressing a SMB
vulnerability:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-063.mspx

I'm
guessing it was this one that screwed up the port forwarding. Has anyone
else ran into this issue?

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