Open Port

[Marc Darragh]

Hi all

Got an open port 515. Using windows vista business edition, Nod32 and Zonealram free ed.

Do a port scan using Shields up and keeps showing that this port is open.

Anyway off closing this with vista??

Regards

Marc Darragh

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Disable or uninstall the program that is using that port.

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Hi all

Got an open port 515. Using windows vista business edition, Nod32 and
Zonealram free ed.

Do a port scan using Shields up and keeps showing that this port is open.

Anyway off closing this with vista??

Regards

Marc Darragh

 

[Marcin Domaslawski]

Hi,

Maybe check first what is on that port - on Vista you can by: cmd ->
netstat -ab

besides if i remember well 515 uses lpd printer.

Marcin Domaslawski



Hi all

Got an open port 515. Using windows vista business edition, Nod32 and
Zonealram free ed.

Do a port scan using Shields up and keeps showing that this port is open.

Anyway off closing this with vista??

Regards

Marc Darragh

 

[Marc Darragh]

Yeah Port 515 is the printer spooler port. I'm using an Epson stylus photo
915. Drivers are built into vista.

Any ideas??

Marc

 

[Jesper Johansson]

Did you install the Unix tools? Ordinarily you wouldn't be exposing LPD on a
Windows machine.

Unless you are serving print services to *nix boxes, do the following:
1. Open the Control Panel
2. Open Programs and Features
3. Click on "Turn Windows features on or off"
4. Expand the "Print Services" node
5. Uncheck "LPD Print Service"
6. Click OK

 

[Robert Moir]

Did you install the Unix tools? Ordinarily you wouldn't be exposing LPD on
a Windows machine.

Unless you are serving print services to *nix boxes, do the following:
1. Open the Control Panel
2. Open Programs and Features
3. Click on "Turn Windows features on or off"
4. Expand the "Print Services" node
5. Uncheck "LPD Print Service"
6. Click OK

Apple's Bonjour printer service uses the LPR method to setup and manage
printer queues. I wonder if that is what has happened here (Epson may be
using Bonjour or something similar without mentioning it to the user of
course).

Bonjour doesn't use the MS LPD daemon but rather one of its own. If this is
what the user is running they need to weigh up the pros and cons of using
Bonjour and if they come down on the side of doing without it they'll be
wanting to switch off the Bonjour service. Personally, I think it's great,
but I'm not sure I'd expose this service directly to the internet.