From: "Geo." 

it's far too useful (netbios over tcp) to disable it. There are other
things that use it besides backup. One of the things we do at the ISP is
print invoices, that also goes over netbios to the print server and then
DLC from there to the printer.

A lot of people think internal/external networks but I've set up the ISP so
there is NO internal network, just software firewalls on certain critical
machines and a few router acls as a double protection measure.

Geo.

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:aifiovkplp3u3u13o8ff6g0s35nfp4ivcm{at}4ax.com...
> I see the problem with a stock backup program.   The Backup Exec Agent
Accelerator uses an
> odd port over TCP  for backup, but even then it requires access to the
infernal NETBIOS
> port to define the backup parameters.
>
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:01:39 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >The problem for me isn't how to expose a service without those ports,
that's
> >easy, the problem is how to do a network backup without those ports.
>

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