Excellent! Glad things are working now.. Paul
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:59:25AM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:44:18AM -0800, Paul Davis wrote: >>> Ray, >>> >>> What steps other than disabling the firewall and enabling remote >>> desktop were taken on this system? There's a blog entry for scanning >>> Windows Vista systems for FDCC Compliance which details steps to >>> enable policy compliance scanning on systems with Security Center >>> such as Vista (or 2008). >>> >>> I am currently successfully scanning a Windows 2008 system for audit >>> compliance, and IIRC, I configured it using the steps in this blog >>> entry: >>> >>> http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html >>> >>> Paul >> Paul, I believe I found the issue. My initial hypothesis that I had >> something misconfigured on the Windows 2008 side was incorrect... I >> took a peek at the Nessus scanner logs and saw the following: >> >> Couldn't load /opt/nessus//lib/nessus/plugins/nessus_tcp_scanner.nes >> - libssl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >> directory >> >> This is using the Fedora 8 RPM of Nessus. However, Fedora 8 only has a >> libssl.so.6 file. :) Probably some libraries within Nessus need to be >> relinkned against the proper .so... >> >> However, easy workaround was to create a symlink from libssl.so.4 (and, >> as it turns out, libcrypto.so.4) to the corresponding .so.6 files. >> >> Re-ran the scan and everything seems to be working now. >> >> Sorry for the wild goose chase! >> > > Actually, one additional step was required on my part to get the > Windows 2008 scan to work completely correctly. I had to disable UAC > for local accounts (done via the registry). > > Support pointed me to this blog link which contained the relevant > instructions: > > http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html > > Everything is working as-expected now. > > Thanks! > Ray > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > -- Best Regards, Paul Davis Research Engineer Tenable Network Security Inc Phone: 410.872.0555 x245 www.tenablesecurity.com Is your network TENABLE? _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
