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THE PROTOCOL ORIGNALLY RAN ON TOP OF NETBT,BUT today runs by itself and uses port 445?

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You are talking about the Server message Block (SMB) protocol in Windows 2000/XP

with port 445, we can use direct tcp/ip networking without the need of NETbios layer which will make better communications between nodes on a network


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