Re: Lock down Win2K Box on a LAN?

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 07/10/05 

Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:39:26 -0600

Just unbind 'File and Printer Sharing' for the network connection. 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Geoff Glave" wrote:
| Hi Everyone,
|
| I'd like to lock down a Windows 2000 Pro box on a LAN.  It needs to be on
| the LAN to connect to the Internet, but that's it - It doesn't access any
| network resources and it doesn't provide any.
|
| I'd like no one else on the LAN to be able to connect to it, or ideally 
even
| see it.
|
| It strikes me that a simple way to do this would be to disable the SERVER
| service.  Is this a good approach?  Are there any other services I could /
| should disable?  Or is my approach a bad one.  The computer itself is
| physically secure in a locked office.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Cheers,
| Geoff Glave
| geoff at glave dot org
| Vancouver, Canada
|
|

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