🚀 go-pugleaf

alsavage@uswest.net (Al Savage) writes:
> Mike T. said that plain NetBIOS isn't routeable outside the local LAN.  
> But it is, using TCP/IP as a transport, and Win9x makes it absurdly easy
> to do this (I don't know about W2k/NT5), creating the potential for a 
> large hackers hole into your data by making local NetBIOS resources 
> available to the world.  The beginning of this thread was Raqueteer 
> wondering why a username/password combo was necessary to be defined on 
> both boxes and to match, and I said, "because you want it that way" :). 
> 
> That's why I mentioned Gibson Research's excellent port tester:
> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
> and press the "Test my Shields" and "Probe my Ports" buttons.
> 

Just to set the record stright "I said"
> > You can enable the guest account on the Win2K box. This means you do not
> > need matching userid/password. That is acceptable for a home network
> > especially if you are not using Netbios over TCPIP.

Note I said "especially if you are not using Netbios over TCPIP"

I also know that Win2K has a firewall to protect it from that security hole
and it also has a setting to turn of the Netbios over TCPIP so you can use
TCPIP as well (unlike Win98).

Enabling the guest account is a reasonable way to run your local network.
Especially if the home network has a firewall on the internet 
dialup/connection (which is the way evrtyone should use it)>

Also you don't know how the original poster connects to the internet.

You may continue your crusade if you wish but I won't - this has already
strayed far from the original topic and I am tired of seeing my views 
distorted and misquoted.

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Regards,                    Michael Taylor
Mike                        miket@interact.net.au
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