RE: Vista patch breaks forwarding of port 445?

After applying the patches, check that the patch did not bind the
microsoft client service to the loopback adapter.  If it did, then you
won't be able to bind to port 445, because the microsoft networking
client service is already listening on the port.  When creating a
loopback interface to use only this type of purpose, you should disable
(or remove) all services, leaving only the TCP/IP protocol, and nothing
else.  This will ensure you have a wide open interface, ready for 3rd
party software bindings.
 
Armand

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 6:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Vista patch breaks forwarding of port 445?


Yesterday I installed the latest set of Vista patches from Microsoft
Update.  I also made a few other changes, like turning off User Account
Control.  Immediately before this I was able to forward port 445 using
"ssh -L 10.0.0.222:445:localhost:445 user@server" where 10.0.0.222 is a
loopback adapter in Windows.  After installing the patches I got an
error message saying port 445 could not be forwarded. So I used Windows
Restore to rollback the patches and everything worked correctly again.
Looking through the patches I'd just installed I found this one
addressing a SMB vulnerability:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-063.mspx

I'm guessing it was this one that screwed up the port forwarding.  Has
anyone else ran into this issue?



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