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Windows 2000 - IPC$ Spoof

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by gonzo2 1 view

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Heads up on this...
According to Microsoft, Windows 2000 disables the Guest account by default (NT4 has it enabled by default).
Result is that a "new" Windows 2000 install introduced into a network will greet each peer with a spoof message about IPC$ UID and PWD. The fix is to enable Guest on the Windows 2000 machine.

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by fellico

i don't know what you are talking about. first off NT4 set's guest off on default. it's a security thing. as for the message, i don't know what that is.

by gonzo2

You are corect - NT4 does have Guest disabled by default. NT5 also does so, but by introducing NT5 into a network, NT5 did put up a dialog box (on two occasins) requesting UID and PWD for the IPC$ account. I did not clarify this.

by dmiles

Confused on your comments about the new security measures that were implemented in WIN2000 that concerns the guest user account.
WINNT4,set it as a default to load as part of the application and could not be activated until the administrator would add the guess permissions,next the spoof is allowing it to be added as a share for the security to setup guest permissions for each user that is logged on and has permissions to use the network from different machines.

by gonzo2

You are corect - NT4 does have Guest disabled by default. NT5 also does so, but by introducing NT5 into a network, NT5 did put up a dialog box (on tow occasins) requesting UID and PWD for the IPC$ account. I did not clarify this.

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