Re: "Network" icon

John John wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:

John John wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:

John John wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:

John John wrote:

Right click "My Network Places" and click on Properties.

John

Robert Baer wrote:

I have two seperate hard drives, each being configured seperately at widely different times.
To close a number of ports, GRC suggests to use the Network icon and re-configure bindings to a certain indicted form.
As a point of reference, i did that on 2 yet different HDs with Win98SE and the procedure worked very well.
But this is not possible (yet) on either Win2K HD, as the Network icon does not exist and i do not know how to fix that.

Help?






Well...all that got me was the Network Dialup connections, which is available in the Control Panel.
And Properties on my ISP dialup does not have any of the controls needed.
There seems to be no control of Server Types, no way to uncheck "i want to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" on any and all protocol lines, no way to install (much less configure or bind) NetBEUI, and no way to change/set hardware adaptor bindings.
What i want is TCP/IP and NetBEUI to be bound to DialUp Adaptor, and Microsoft Family Logon bound to NetBEUI, period - no other bindings.

So,how do i get that done?






NetBEUI??????!!!!!! Is your computer part of an MS-DOS network? Do you have any (old) applications that specifically require NetBEUI? Is your computer even part of a network, or is it a stand alone? The settings you ask about are not needed on stand alone machines and in this day and age the NetBEUI protocol is hardly ever required or used. I don't know where you are getting the information but I think it must be severely out of date! The settings you seek to change are bound to the network adapter.

John




See http://www.grc.com/default.htm
I have a stand-alone computer, no network cards, use an external modem for dial-up.
NetBEUI is recommended to be used with the described bindings because it is safe and appears to not be related to any application(s).
With the specified bindings, all ports from the 1024 region and down are closed to the outside.
Works wonders; no firewall necessary.




So, how do you think that your computer connects to the internet? And what makes you think that ports above 1024 aren't used for security exploits? (Search for Back Orifice, just for one). And do you think that NetBeui is invulnerable, that it can't be used for security exploits? What is the purpose of having additional unneeded protocols installed?

John


Be so kind as to log to the GRC website and do a bit of research.
Adding NetBEUI was fairly easy, but i still cannot see, much less change any bindings.
How can i see and change bindings in Win2K?


Supply a link to the GRC site and the information that you are reading. I can only suspect that the information that you are reading is severely out of date or that it is meant for W9x machines. I don't know why anyone would want to bind NetBEUI to the Dial-Up adapter, and I know even less why anyone would even want to enable it on a stand alone machine, to me it makes no sense. Maybe in special modem to modem network access scenarios NetBEUI would be bound to the adapter but I have never done things like that, the internet is accessed on the TCP/IP transport protocol, that is usually the only protocol that you need on a stand alone machine, some people who game online sometimes use other protocols but that is a different thing than what we are generally talking about here.

John
Read this:
http://www.grc.com/su-bondage.htm
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