It is best to "disable" the built in administrator account. Dave
_____________________ Dave Kleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netmedic.net -----Original Message----- From: David Gillett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 17:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: About default sharing folders in Windows > I strongly suggest renaming the local Administrator and Guest account > to something that is not easily guessed at. In addition, you should > probably create "dummy" accounts named "Administrator" and "Guest" > that have no rights/no group memberships and are disabled. Monitor > the dummy accounts closely for log in attempts. Note that there's no point to this unless you *also* disable the ability to enumerate accounts over a null connection. The renamed Administrator account will be trivial to spot by its ID otherwise. David Gillett --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
