> Is it possible that Nessus could be blocked from
> gathering this information? I've tried to run this
> check against a subnet of mostly windows 2000
> workstations and the results of the scan do not show
> any service pack versions. I've made sure to enable
> dependencies, but still no results. I'm thinking
> maybe the image that was put out had something
> disabled that prevents NEssus from finding the sp
> version. Any ideas?
Jeff,
In order to determine the SP version, Nessus needs the following:
* all dependencies (and sub-dependencies) run
* registry access via remote login to the machine
* network connectivity to the remote machine :-)
Also, note that the plug-in will only fire if the service pack is less
than 4. If the machine has SP4, then an alert will not be generated (but
the KB key "SMB/Win2k/ServicePack" will be saved).
--Keith
