Print Sharing
Exploiting File and Print Sharing, by:
Ghost_Rider (Ghost_Rider9@hotmail.com)
R a v e N (barakirs@netvision.net.il)
Date of Release: 2/4/2000
http://blacksun.box.sk
Thanks to Oggy, a totally kewl and helpful guy that helped us release this
tutorial faster.
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Introduction
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Remember that I won't go into much detail, because it could start getting
too complicated to explain to newbies. This is a newbies guide after all. If
you want more detailed information about file sharing search the web, or
read some good NT networks administration books.
Windows has an option called file and print sharing. You can use this
option in order to "share" drive and printers, which means giving access to
files and printers to other people - people on your own network, specific
IPs or even the whole world. When you turn this option on, you leave an open
port (port number 139) that accepts connections and understand the "NetBIOS
protocol", a set of commands (a "language") used to access remote file
and print sharing servers, so that other computers can access the files or
printers you decided to share.
Now sometimes in a small company LAN this could be extremely useful. For
example, instead of having a separate
printer for each computer, there's just
one central printer in a computer that allows file and print sharing. But if
you are using file sharing in your home computer (We've seen many people
that have this option turned on and don't even know what it means! Poor
souls) that is connected to the Internet, that could be quite dangerous because
anyone who knows your IP can access your files or printers you're sharing.
If you don't know if file sharing is active in your computer just go to the
control...
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