On 09/12/07 18:25, John Hanauer wrote: > I am a Northwestern University student running Redhat Fedora on my > computers and have been running Fedora for almost two years. I've never > had any problems with our campus network, but recently after upgrading > to Fedora 7, which includes samba 3.0.25, I continually get quarantined > on our ResNet because of the 12909 plugin to Nessus, claiming that my > Linux machine needs Windows updates to SMB.
This plugin should be exiting pretty quickly if Nessus has determined that you're running Samba. It does this by running another plugin, #10150. What may be happening is that the scans are not configured to run that plugin, perhaps because plugin dependencies are not enabled, but the people actually running the scan would need to confirm that. > As far as I can tell, I am since running 3.0.25c and the problem still > exists. I simply have to turn off SMB and tell Northwestern's ResNet to > rescan me and I am good to go for another week or so. Understandably, I > am getting tired of this and NU's IT is unwilling to help out or do the > work in fixing the solution, so here I am myself. You could try asking them about plugin dependencies. If they're as unresponsive as you say, though, it might be simpler to just set up firewall rules to reject connections to SMB ports from their scanners. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
