[SOLVED] Just out of the stuff that kills cats :) ...

ButterflyMelissa · 03-31-2013, 04:35 PM

Hey gang,

Just now, I ran a netstat (I do that often, is'nt paranoia cool?

... ) and this line showed up:

Quote:

tcp 28 0 192.168.1.260:52935 192.168.1.4:139 ESTABLISHED 2125/gvfsd-smb-brow

Now, I just looked up the meaning/use of port 139, and found that it is a NETBIOS session...

Anyone have an idea what was going on? Just to clarify, 139.168.1.4 is a wireless box on my network...
By the way, I killed the process and nothing else died on me, so, that's a plus...

Just being curious

Thor

michaelk · 03-31-2013, 05:08 PM

Can you tell us what is this wireless box?

TCP 139 is part of samba i.e. SMB/CIFS windows printer and file sharing protocols. Port 139 is session service and basically establishes a connection between computers. Is samba running on this computer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS

ButterflyMelissa · 04-01-2013, 04:35 AM

No samba I know of :s it's a vanilla Mint in the wireless and a Xubuntu on the main box, I have a VDSL modem (BBox2) that has wireless enabled. What does happen is that the loopback on the main box listens to the printerport of CUPS, so, no surprise there...

The wireless box is an Archos9 I use as media station (Internetradio, that's all it can handle) and a lookup for FB and webmail...no touch is enabled (did'nt get it to work

anyway) but that should not have an impact...

Thanks for the input!

Thor

ButterflyMelissa · 04-01-2013, 07:28 AM

Yup, this piece of magick had samba running, just removed it, the box keeps running, and the "calls" stopped. What's with the printservice anyway? My last printout dates from two years ago....this is the 21st century, we're supposed to be paperless by now...

I'll mark this as solved, thanks michaelk!