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Q179442: How to Configure a Firewall for Domains and Trusts

Article: Q179442
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): 2000,4.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbenv kbnetwork kbtool
Last Modified: 23-APR-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server 
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SUMMARY
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This article describes how to configure a firewall for domains and trusts.

MORE INFORMATION
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To establish a domain trust or secure channel across a firewall, the following
ports must be opened. Note that there may be hosts functioning with both client
and server roles on both sides of the firewall. Because of this, ports rules may
need to be mirrored.

Windows NT
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+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Client Port(s) | Server Port | Service                       | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP | 135/TCP     | RPC *                         | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| 137/UDP        | 137/UDP     | NetBIOS Name                  | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| 138/UDP        | 138/UDP     | NetBIOS Netlogon and Browsing | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP | 139/TCP     | NetBIOS Session               | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP | 42/TCP      | WINS Replication              | 
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

Windows 2000
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For a mixed-mode domain with either Windows NT domain controllers or legacy
clients or trust relationship between two windows 2000 domain controllers which
are not in the same forest, all of the preceding ports for Windows NT may need
to be opened in addition to the following ports:

+---------------------------------------------------+
| Client Port(s)        | Server Port | Service     | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP        | 135/TCP     | RPC *       | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP/UDP    | 389/TCP/UDP | LDAP        | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP        | 636/TCP     | LDAP SSL    | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP        | 3268/TCP    | LDAP GC     | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP        | 3269/TCP    | LDAP GC SSL | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 53,1024-65535/TCP/UDP | 53/TCP/UDP  | DNS         | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP/UDP    | 88/TCP/UDP  | Kerberos    | 
+---------------------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP        | 445/TCP     | SMB         | 
+---------------------------------------------------+

NOTE: There are specific requirements for RPC communication beyond what is listed
in this table. For additional information about how to configure RPC
communications for a firewall, click the article number below to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q154596 Configuring RPC Dynamic Port Allocation to Work With Firewall

By default, Windows 2000 DNS servers use ephemeral client-side ports when they
query other DNS servers. However, this behavior may be modified with a specific
registry setting that is described in the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

  Q260186 SendPort DNS Registry Key Does Not Work as Expected


Alternatively, you can establish a trust through the Point-to-Point Tunneling
Protocol (PPTP) compulsory tunnel, and this will limit the number of ports that
the firewall will need to open. For PPTP, the following ports must be enabled:

+-----------------------------------------+
| Client Ports   | Server Port | Protocol | 
+-----------------------------------------+
| 1024-65535/TCP | 1723/TCP    | PPTP     | 
+-----------------------------------------+

In addition, you would need to enable IP PROTOCOL 47 (GRE).

Additional query words: tcpip

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Keywords          : kbenv kbnetwork kbtool 
Technology        : kbWinNTsearch kbWinNT400search kbwin2000AdvServ kbwin2000AdvServSearch kbwin2000Serv kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTS400search kbWinNTS400 kbwin2000ServSearch kbwin2000Search kbwin2000ProSearch kbwin2000Pro kbWinAdvServSearch
Version           : :2000,4.0
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbhowto

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