Re: NBT vs SMB - security?

From: Oli Restorick [MVP] (oli_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:15:46 +0100

If you disable NetBT, that gets rid of a lot of the legacy file sharing
code.

Have you thought about using IPSec or IP Filtering to block access?

Regards

Oli

"Gary" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1972a01c44d4d$d45446d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Microsoft advise that NBT (NetBIOS over TCP) and SMB (445)
> should be disabled on machines that are in less protected
> networks. I have a network which has a firewall permiting
> only web access to a web server behind it. I would like to
> also disable NBT and SMB on this machine to limit attack
> vectors. However the web server needs to be able to access
> a file share on another adjacent machine so this will not
> be possible? If I were to disable one of these transports
> over the other which one is more secure?

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