TCP & UDP: 135-139
TCP & UDP: 445
Yes its a lot of ports and I don’t have any evidence to prove that UDP is actually used but thats the word from Microsoft.
And yes they work!
Tested on firewalls: Cisco ASA and PIX, Monowall, Sonicwall and IPTables.
Theres 2 ways to restart IIS which I find seems to fix most random IIS problems.
Start -> Run : services.msc
Right click on “Microsoft Internet Information Service” and select restart
or
Star -> Run : cmd
Simply type iisreset
This approach seems to work first time every time.
Edit c:\boot.ini and add /PAE flag to the end of the Windows boot line.
So it should look a little something like this…
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Windows Server 2003, Enterprise” /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /PAE