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admin | Feb 09, 2012 | Comments 0
Windows XP firewall bug?
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All of a sudden a handful of weeks ago, my craptastic Windows Pc suddenly stopped allowing other machines to access its file shares.
At the time I had a speedy appear to make certain that "File and Print Sharing" was still ticked below Exceptions. Which it was.
These days I decided to have a closer look. So I turned on the firewall log. And confident sufficient even even though UDP ports 139 and 145 and TCP ports 137 and 138 are clearly marked as open for machines on the very same subnet, the firewall is nevertheless DROPping them.
All my machines are on the identical subnet, but if I alter the scope on UDP 139 and TCP 137 to let access for any machine (i.e. machines from various subnets) to these ports and suddenly I can access them once again.
Even even though all my machines ARE on the identical subnet.
What the hell? Am I missing one thing or is this an actual bug?
Filed Under: Corrupt System File
