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December 7, 2001 at 5:42 am #2130843

What Services Do I Need?

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by rob.jones2 · about 20 years, 5 months ago

I was wondering if anyone could help me? I set up a standalone Win2k file server for use by my department of 29 users. It will server as a file server and FTP server. No IIS. What services can I safely shut off? What services SHOULD I shut off for security purposes? Any suggestions??

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- December 7, 2001 at 5:51 am #3546175
  
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  by joseph moore · about 20 years, 5 months ago
  
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  Here is my opinion on this. Let these services run:
  Alerter
  COM+
  DTC
  DNS Client
  Event Log
  IPSec
  Logical Disk Manager
  Messenger
  Net Logon
  Network Connections
  NT LM Security
  P&P
  Protected Storage
  RPC
  Removable Storage
  RunAs
  SAM
  Server
  System Event
  Task Scheduler
  TCP/IP NetBIOS
  Telephony
  all WMI services
  Workstation
  
  Everything else can be shut off safely.
  - December 7, 2001 at 5:53 am #3546174
    
    What Services Do I Need?
    
    by joseph moore · about 20 years, 5 months ago
    
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    Oh, and any application-level services too. Your FTP software, for example, probably sets up a service. But that is a given.
  - December 18, 2001 at 6:30 am #3559773
    
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- December 9, 2001 at 4:34 pm #3548519
  
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  by abubin · about 20 years, 5 months ago
  
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  since you are going to run only ftp, you might also try using 3rd party ftp such as serv-u or warftp. IIS ftp is little limited.
  - December 18, 2001 at 6:30 am #3559774
    
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- December 18, 2001 at 6:30 am #3559772
  
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