• It is NOT EM who does that it just happens indirectly.

    Those ports are used by NBT or netbios over tcp/ip it is all because of the NAME resolution mechanism. To minimize that you may try to create either an alias of your server name with the client network utility pointing to the right ip address or create an entry on the hosts file on your workstation. That will prevent name resolution outside of your box.

    HTH


    * Noel