Re: When nmap can't ID the OS...

[xyberpix <xyberpix () xyberpix com>]

I know that there area couple of registry tweaks that can be added to
Windows(can't remember what they are at the moment), but that may be it.
I used to do it to all my boxes, Solaris, Windows, Linux, BSD, basically
just adding tweaks to change the TCP Seq ID.

HTH

xyberpix

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 16:40 +0800, Derek Fountain wrote:
> I have a remote server, which according to Netcraft, is running IIS-5.0 on 
> Windows2000. I don't know for sure if that's the case, but it is believable.
>
> When I used nmap (3.75) to ID the OS on it, it says it doesn't know. The 
> machine has several ports open and none filtered, so I'd have thought nmap 
> could work it out. I have a local machine running W2K and nmap can ID that 
> (at least as far as telling me it's running some version on Windows).
>
> What could be up with the remote machine that stops nmap IDing the OS it is 
> running?
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