**Samba ports usage**

====== Introduction ======

If you require to secure your Samba installation with a firewall, you would need information, what ports and protocols are used. This page will give you an overview.


====== Identify on which ports and interfaces Samba is listening  ======
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You can use "netstat" to identify which ports Samba and related daemons are listening on and on which IPs:
<code>
 # netstat -tulpn | egrep "samba|smbd|nmbd|winbind"
</code>

The following is a snippet of an example output: 
<code>
 tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:139               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      43270/smbd          
 tcp        0      0 10.0.0.1:139                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      43270/smbd          
 tcp        0      0 10.0.0.1:88                 0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      43273/samba         
 tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:88                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      43273/samba         
 tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:445               0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      43270/smbd          
 tcp        0      0 10.12.112.84:445            0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      43270/smbd          
.....
</code>

The above example shows, that the services are listening on localhost (127.0.0.1) and the interface with IP 10.12.112.84 - each on the listed ports (139, 88, 445,...).

====== Port usage when Samba runs as DC ======
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{{ :samba4_ports_usage.png?450 |}}

//* Samba, like Windows, supports dynamic RPC services. The range starts at 1024. If something occupies this port for some reason, it will be a different port (literally walked up from 1024). 
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