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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Laura
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Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 2:07 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] 2K3 documentation update? (WAS: Windows Server 2003
Security Weirdness)

Remember my "I'm getting hammered with brute-force attacks as if 'Do not
allow enumeration of SAM' setting wasn't there even though it is"
problem?

Found the solution today.

Remember the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\RestrictAnonymou
s key in 2000, that you needed to set to "2" to do any good?

Seems that's been deprecated in 2003, and the new correct value is split
into 2 registry keys:

..\RestrictAnonymous=1
..\RestrictAnonymousSAM=1

Now, I've obviously only done this on my network, but I can tell you
that a setting of "2" in ..\RestrictAnonymous had me wide open and
getting hammered by account enumeration attacks, whereas changing it to
a "1" now has my IPC$ share behaving the way I thought it should've
been.

The kicker?  I can't find any mention of the change in an MS Article
(though Deji or someone will doubtless prove me wrong in about 5 seconds
with their superior Google-fu skills :-)).  And the Windows Server 2003
Deployment Kit actually references "2" as a valid entry for
..\RestrictAnonymous.

Can anyone confirm or deny this before I go making a fool out of myself
by submitting an incorrect or redundant KB article?

Laura E. Hunter 
MCSE, MVP - Windows Networking
University of Pennsylvania

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