Sam writes .. >I just want to find out what your opinion is with regards to turning >off file and printer sharing for windows machines in a network. Would >turning this off cause you from not being able to do management tasks >on machines via scripts? Or those tasks can be done but will just be >limited by the privilege you have? etch. I remember at some point, >there is a perl script that I did in the past that I wasn't able to >make a query on a machine because the file and printer sharing was off. >What could be a way around it if that happens? Just want to find out >general opinions about this. Thanks.
"File and Printer Sharing" is Microsoft's euphemism for "NetBIOS" (aka SMB, CIFS, NTLM, etc.) it is the protocol that Windows machines use to talk to each other to share files and do some management tasks (not all). Disabling it on a machine means that machine will no longer be listening for that protocol and will ignore any requests sent to it. This is irrespective of the permissions/privileges that you have set on that machine. Once the protocol is disabled there can be no activity for those requests. It is always advisable to switch NetBIOS off on internet-facing network connections. So, unless your network is behind a firewall that blocks NetBIOS or a NAT that prevents external machines from accessing internal machines then it's definitely recommended to switch off NetBIOS on all network interfaces within your network. But if you have either a firewall or some NATting going on, then leave it enabled because your network is closed and probably not susceptible to NetBIOS attacks/probes/interrogations. Btw, this has nothing to do with Perl, so you'll definitely get a better answer in a different forum. There are plenty of security websites around that talk about this, and plenty of security forums as well. -- Jason King _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
