[WinPartners] Re: KB824146Scan not scanning WinNT machines

[Huxley, Bil]

Tom,

Quite right - I was trying to scan all of the computers in our domain and 
produce a single report of vulnerabilities (from 1 workstation by scanning 
across the network).

Thanks,
   Bil

At 9/10/2003 11:51 PM, lensman at MIT.EDU wrote:

>      Bil,
>
>      Are you scanning accros the network from a single station? In the 
> cases I
>have tried, I was at the console of those NT servers and ran the scan against
>"localhost" and it worked fine for me... I haven't tried scanning my NT 
>servers
>from another machine...
>
>      Tom
>
>Quoting "Huxley, Bil" <huxley at MIT.EDU>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > A Heads-Up.  It would appear in our limited exercises that the
> > KB824146Scan.exe tool is not working with WinNT4 machines, though "Windows
> > NT 4.0-based computers" are listed in article 827363 as being supported by
> > this tool.  Every instance we've tried results in an "other errors" and 
> the
> > Host is Skipped.  This seems to be true for Servers and 
> Workstations.  As a
> > result these machines do not appear on the "Vulnerable" list.
> >
> > When we run the /l option the log reports: "cannot get workstation info:
> > error 997 (0x000003E5)".  This long message makes these machines easy to
> > identify in the log.
> >
> > FYI,
> >    Bil
> >
> >