"Fred" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a webservice created in VB.NET 2003 hosted on a Windows 2003
> server. This service inserts data into a SQL Server 2000 database also
> hosted on a Windows 2003 server. The webserver is in a closed DMZ and
> the Database Sever is on the internal network. The firewall is
> configured to allow traffic to the DB Server on port 1433. Form the
> outside world the request get passed throught to the webserver as it
> should be. However when the request from the webserver is passed to
> the DB server the request on port 1433 is being passed but two
> requests one on port 137 and one on port 445 are being dropped. Can
> anyone tell me why a simple sqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() would need to
> use 137 and 445?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Fred
>