Re: Security: NetBIOS Shared Folder List Available -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Security: NetBIOS Shared Folder List Available
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:09:33 -0600
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LOL - but a share named root$ would be effectively invisible - you'd have to know it exists, and you have to include the $-sign when entering it in Explorer.

Security by obscurity once again!

Maybe combine with Jim's suggestion.

On 3/4/2013 1:58 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Of course, if our team didn't create a share called 'root' it would help.
:-(

Rob Berendt

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