Re: Windows NT file sharing

From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:33:07 GMT

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:28:01 -0700, "Twas" <twas@anon.postalias>
wrote:

>Yes, I know Windows NT is archaic, unsupported, insecure, inferior to Windows
>XP, etc. However, one of my users has a Windows NT 4.0 sp6 Workstation
>system, and I'm stuck with it. A security scan said file sharing was enabled
>on her system. The only share I can find is IPC$. How can I disable (or kill)
>file sharing on a Windows NT system, either for IPC$ or for the entire system?

Disable or remove the Server service. A quick Google would have found
this for you, as well as a lot of other NT4 securtiy info.

Jeff

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