Re: Nessus on XP Home

Ron Gula <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
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"XP Home" does not support remote logins the same way XP Pro or any
of the Windows "Server" systems supports it.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

Kgomotso Pule wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone is running Nessus on a private machine at home
> perhaps - which runs XP Home? I have ran many scans on my PC and it seems
> Nessus doesn't have enough privileges to run a "full scan". I suspect that
> the problem is 'XP Home' related because I did a scan at work on a test
> environment machine which runs XP Professional and it worked.
> 
> This seems to be the problem: ""*It was not possible to connect to \\
> 127.0.0.1\ADMIN$*"?"
> 
> Please note: The credentials provided into Nessus are a username/password
> with admin privileges to the machine.
> 
> Regards,
> Kgomotso
> 
> 
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