Hi everyone, recently we had an auditor evaluate our W2K machines and he is
telling us that our NetBIOS security is not secure enough.  He listed the
following details:
LSAAnonymousNameLookup - Set to 0

We have a WSUS 3 server running to distribute patches and updates to our
workstations. Its been working quite happily until it hit KB941644 which it
has been unable to push out.
It is showing all the relevant machines as needing the update but in the

My computer start showing me annoying
popups
Internal System
Error

please help me local network secrity in windows 2000 and xp

Here is a signed copy (?)

I have just replaced a burnt out external USB disk drive with a new one
in the same enclosure. The device manager can see the drive and tells
me that it needs initialising and that it is working. How do I do this
as it is not being shown in 'MY COMPUTER'?

I have had to completely rebuild by XP Home system from scratch.  When I
recovered files from my backup I had two directories that were originally
private.  Now I cannot open them - Access Denied, and I cannot delete them.  
I 'thought' my user ID was the same as the original ...

Ever since I built an new Windows 2003 ISA server I keep getting these
error on the Windows 2000 Server DC.
Service Ticket Request Failed:
    User Name:

Is there a way I can list out all the folders and who has access to
them.  Lets say there are folders JSmith for John and Amanda to share
and DAdams for Doug and Sarah to share.   Is there a way I can list
something like

I read an article on a windows security web site that recommended that
you set the permission for all shares to allow Full Control to
Authenticated Users (the default is Full Control to Everyone, although
in recent versions of Windows I think they changed it to Read for

I have security updates but not all got updated.
KB942615,KB942624,KB942763,KB905866. Where or who could help with this
situation? I can't afford microsofts help centers and they won't tell you
without a credit card. I'm stating to think they come up with these updates

I cannot open files or save them to my other computer on my network
When I try to open files on the other computer, I get a message saying
"write protected"
When I try to save a file to other comp I get message that says "cannot

I bought a used computer w/y2k pro. When I turn on computer it goes to user
and asks for password. I do not have the password. Is there any way around
this, as I don't have startup disks to reinstall.

Is there a policy to disable an account that hasn't been used in x number of
days?
Thanks
Victor

I wish to add a security phrase and response to the schema.  But before I add
my own schema keys I was wondering if there is already a schema key there for
a security phrase.  And just to be clear I want something along the lines of
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