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scuthber
Aspirant
May 01, 2020

ReadyNAS SMB Plus and NULL NetBIOS Sessions

I have an old RN102 that's been exposed as "vulnerable" due to the IPC$ share permitting NULL sessions. I did see another similar post but it was inconclusive... The firmware is old (6.0.8) and I ga...
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scuthber
Aspirant
May 04, 2020

I'm up to 6.1.0.3 now and I just noticed a "Legacy Windows Discovery" checkbox in SMB settings. Is this anything to do with the IPC$ share?

 

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
May 04, 2020
scuthber wrote:

I'm up to 6.10.3 now and I just noticed a "Legacy Windows Discovery" checkbox in SMB settings. 

 

Windows 10 uses WS-Discovery Old versions of Windows used NetBios discovery.  The checkbox tells the NAS to also advertise using the older method.

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