What Ports are used to map a remote drive ?

[Tom Celica]

We want to map a remote drive in our production network from our corporate
network. The Network Admin asked me what ports do I need to be opened
between the two sites. The drive at the remote site is a Windows 2000
Server NTFS formated drive on a stand alone server. The Client is also a
windows machine either XP or Win2k or Win2003. I'm pretty sure that some
authentication will occur when the remote drive is mapped. We will probably
execute a commande like this: net use r: \\remote.machine.com\c$ password
/user:[email protected]

What ports on our firewall need to be opened so we can map a remote windows
drive ?

thanks
-tom

 

[Dave Patrick]

TCP ports 139 and 445, and UDP ports 137 and 138.

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:
| We want to map a remote drive in our production network from our corporate
| network. The Network Admin asked me what ports do I need to be opened
| between the two sites. The drive at the remote site is a Windows 2000
| Server NTFS formated drive on a stand alone server. The Client is also a
| windows machine either XP or Win2k or Win2003. I'm pretty sure that some
| authentication will occur when the remote drive is mapped. We will
probably
| execute a commande like this: net use r: \\remote.machine.com\c$ password
| /user:[email protected]
|
| What ports on our firewall need to be opened so we can map a remote
windows
| drive ?
|
| thanks
| -tom
|
|