On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:35:06PM -0600, Nathan Reeves wrote:
>
> Installed the latest version 2.0.X of Nessus on a RH7.2 server. I'm
> attempting to do a scan against an XP workstation but I keep getting
> the following error appear in the nessus logs:
>
>
> Not launching smb_nt_ms02-060.nasl against PCNAME because the key
> SMB/name is missing (this is not an error)
>
>
> Searching previous messages came up with a response that it is
> happening because nessus can't determine the netbios name of the PC.
> Question is, how can I fix this?
Enable netbios_name_get.nasl
>
> Also interested to know how the system gains access to the registry of
> a remote windows machine. What username / password does it use to
> gain access?
By default, it uses a null session (so on modern Windows, it sees
nothing), but you can specify a SMB account (the local administrator or
even the domain administrator) in the options.
Note that in Nessus 2.0.2 (to be released really soon [maybe tonight]),
SMB credentials are now passed using NTLMv1 (and NTLMv2 is on its way),
so you don't broadcast your login/password to the whole network.
-- Renaud
