Nmap Development: Re: rare animal: Nmap on Windows 2003 x64

[Max <Reply.to.list () acme com>]

If you need *to* pentest a 64bit machine, you should run your scan 
*from* another machine. Use a 32bit machine *for* the test and you 
should have no problems with nmap.


M () x


Spam wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> a couple of days ago I needed to pentest a 64Bit Windows 2003 box.
> I know that the question might sound silly since because I don't really
> have the output (neither do I have access to the system) anymore, but
> does nmap run at all on this machine?
>
> Specifically (I was using the winpcap 3.2 alpha1, 3.1 didn't fly).
> upon using nmap it kept on telling me that it couldn't found the default
> interface. nmap --iflist showed the same complaint. (Needless
> to say that there was one). The system was with its patches pretty up to
> date, I didn't tweak the registry (like AppCompatFlags), a comparable
> 32Bit system worked.
>
> Sorry if this was discussed before but I couldn't find anything.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>       Dirk
>
>
> PS: I ended up writing a (cough) BAT script using netcat. :-/
>
>
>   

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