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Block open ports

I want to block open ports e.g 445 on my windows server 2012 R2 server. I have tried to follow the procedure of adding an inbound rule in windows firewall advanced settings but when I run nmap the report still shows port 445 as open. is there another way of blocking/disabling the port

netcmh

Have you tried this:

Open up cmd as "Run as administrator."
Type in the following:
netsh advfirewall set allprofile state on <Enter>
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule dir=in action=block protocol=TCP localport=445 name="Block_TCP-445" <Enter>

You can also do it via registry:

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NetBT\Parameters
Right click the blank area and select New. Select DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Call it SMBDeviceEnabled. Modify it, and change Value data from 1 to 0
and then disable the Windows Server service

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Cliff Galiher

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John

I agree with Cliff and here is a supporting article.

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH88796.html

In there is a link to a Microsoft Support article. You probably do not need to close unless you allow for all the possibilities of it being closed.

Seth Simmons

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