Re: Open Guest Share question

From: António (amateus@mail.pt)
Date: 09/27/01


Message-ID: <20010927160229.8754.qmail@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:02:22 +0100
From: "António" Mateus <amateus@mail.pt>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Open Guest Share question


('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Hello Evan,

That means you have a share in the servers that is open to everybody.
Just do the following steps:

WinNT
-Go to 'Server Manager', in Administrative Tools Folder
-Double click the server you want, and then click 'shares'
-Identify the shares and correspondent folders.
-Go to explorer, and see the share properties of the folders.
-Just erase the share, or give him right permissions.

Win2000
-Computer Management (Win2000) in the Administrative Tools folder, and search
for the shares folder.
-See the share properties (the permissions).
-Just erase the share, or give him right permissions.

Hope it will help,

António Mateus

P.S. - Also, to identify the shares, you could type in the command prompt 'net
share'. Just to remember good old (never dies) ms-dos ;)

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> I ran the free version of eEye's Nimda scanner and it came back with "Open
> Guest Share" on all of my Servers, both WinNT 4.0 SP6a and Windows 2000.
>
> Now, all of these machines are patched and none are actually infected. So
> what is this "Opne Guest Share" then? How do I remedy it as a security
> hole?
>
> Evan Mann
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