Hi all. I've been playing with the Vista host based fire wall, and ran into something odd. If I have the network connection type set to Private, it's suppose to allow for easy discovery, but all of the normal ports are closed:
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Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-10-02 14:18 Eastern Daylight
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All 1697 scanned ports on vista-test-box (192.168.1.123) are filtered
MAC Address: 00:0C:29:78:84:CE (VMware)
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 38.813 seconds
If I set it to be a Public location, where my machine is not to be easily found, I get the NetBIOs and SMB ports open:
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Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-10-02 14:22 Eastern Daylight
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Interesting ports on vista-test-box (192.168.1.123):
Not shown: 1694 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
135/tcp open msrpc
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
MAC Address: 00:0C:29:78:84:CE (VMware)
Isn't that the opposite of what it should be?