Wow.  That's an exploit waiting to happen.

On 3/13/08 11:43 AM, "David W. McSpadden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It does has SQL 2000 on it.  With a blank SA password.......
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter van Houten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Remote server won't allow management
> 
> 
>> Going out on a limb but I know when I'm in this situation, I'll try just
>> about anything to talk to a server I can "see" (bearing in mind the
>> time/cost).  What about running nmap against the system to see if port 135
>> (RPC) or any others are, in fact open?  Anyone have a copy of Blaster for
>> David :-)
>> 
>> On the 13/03/2008 19:18, David W. McSpadden wrote the following:
>>> All of the ps tools come back unable to connect.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter van Houten"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Remote server won't allow management
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Thanks to Mark R. once again:
>>>> 
>>>> psexec \\computername -i "shutdown -r -t 1"
>>>> 
>>>> or if you *really* want to shut down no matter what:
>>>> 
>>>> pskill -t \\computername svchost.exe
>>>> 
>>>> which will kill most instances of the generic host process and
>>>> consequently restart the machine. But as James pointed out, the
>>>> integrity of the RPC channel must be intact.
>>>> 
>>>> I have experienced the frustration of being able to ping a system but
>>>> not being able to communicate in any other way else.  This idea would be
>>>> useful if one could implement it in Windows:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.securiteam.com/tools/5GP071FG0Q.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 13 March
>>>>> 2008 11:38 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Remote server
>>>>> won't allow management
>>>>> 
>>>>> If it won¹t take a remote shutdown command (from the ResKit), then it
>>>>>  is probably out of reach. Most stuff relies on some form of RPC
>>>>> communication. I sometimes use pskill to kill the winlogon process
>>>>> which generally makes it bluescreen, but this may not work either in
>>>>> diagnostic mode
>>>>> 
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *From:* David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 13 March
>>>>> 2008 11:30 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Remote server
>>>>> won't allow management
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nope.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> 
>>>>> *From:* Rankin, James R <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* NT
>>>>> System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:29 AM *Subject:* RE: Remote server
>>>>> won't allow management
>>>>> 
>>>>> Take it it doesn¹t have a DRAC/RIB/ILO installed?
>>>>> 
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *From:* David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 13 March
>>>>> 2008 11:20 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Remote server won't
>>>>> allow management
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a remote server I would like to get into but is was last
>>>>> restarted in Diag mode from MSCONFIG.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There is no one at the remote site.  Is there a way to get it unstuck?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can ping it but that is all.
>> 
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