Re: Security: NetBIOS Shared Folder List Available

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Turn off browse announcements in the netserver config.

It will require a restart of the NetServer.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 3/4/2013 6:38 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Apparently people who do not even have an IBM i account can open up
> Windows explorer on their PC and point it to
> \\youribmi
> and see your list of shares.  Now, they can't access them without an IBM i
> account (unless you set up Guest access).  But our Qualys internal
> security scan lets us know that this is of some concern because it may be
> enough to encourage someone to try a brute force attack to get into them.
> They consider this a middle of the road concern.
>
> Is there some way to turn off showing the list of shares to those users
> without an IBM i account?
>
> If this was running Windows I could follow the recommendation of the
> report and do a couple of steps and it would be done.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
> -- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 
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