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Can someone tell me the following information or where I could find a listing where I could correspond the following:Specifically, the port and protocol for windows file sharing translated into what is required to implement this on a hardware firewall. The question has nothing to do with the builtin windows firewall.1) what it takes to be able to do a net use command to a share on a windows file server in a command prompt?2) what it takes to be able to use explorer and display data for on a remote server? Hello,I understood SMB to be an application layer 'protocol' with the underlying transport mechanism being TCP. As it relates to opening firewall ports the minimum requirement is:TCP: 445UDP: 137, 138TCP: 137, 139Note: Historically CIFS / SMB are vulnerable to security threats. Also, the next admin admin to work on the server is 100% likely to set a local file permission incorrectly which could expose data. I suggest specifying specific source IP addresses in yourfirewall tables if you're going to enable SMB.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ServerMessageBlock.