Scanning Win2k with Nessus

["Beau Nuanes" <bnuanes@ssg-inc.net>]

Hello,

I am new to Nessus, but have been doing system/network administration for about 5 years.  I am trying to scan 2 win2k machines (one patched and one not) to get comfortable with Nessus before putting it into production.  Here's what I've done, after doing some research:

1)  Installed NessusClient and Nessus on a Fedora Core 6 machine.
2)  Disabled "Safe Checks" and "Optimize the test" in NessusClient.
3)  Disabled the *nix related tests since I'm scanning Win2k.
4)  Created a Nessus user on the win2k machines and gave him/her administrative privledges (I'll change this by editing the winreg key once I have this working)
5)  Entered the credentials for this user in NessusClient. I tried using hostname\user and just user as the username.

My problem is that it appears that I am not attempting to authenticate at all.  The Event viewer on the Win2k machines do not even show an attempted login.  The "Local Checks Failed" plugin is active but does not give me anything in the report.

Any ideas?  Should I just re-install Nessus?  Thanks in advance.

Beau Nuanes      



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