OT: Determining TCP port ownership

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Sat Nov 3 17:06:24 2001

>
> Hello, all:
>
> I'm having a bit of a time with SNMP on my Windows NT box. I'm running the
> Compaq management agents which use ports 161 and 162. But, when the SNMP
> service starts, it complains that another program is grabbing the port.
> Using "netstat -an" tells me that something is grabbing the ports using both
> TCP and UDP. The TCP address shown is 0.0.0.0.
>
> I have no other obvious programs running that would be an SNMP server. Is
> there a utility that can tell me which executable is grabbing a given port?
>

I asked a friend and he said to run nmap to do a port scan of your server. It
is supposed to tell you which ports are open and the names of the programs
running on said port.

Hope this helps,

Bryan Pope
Received on Sat Nov 03 2001 - 17:06:24 GMT