Nmap on Windows 2000

["Rob Nicholls" <robert () robnicholls co uk>]

I know we've made an effort in the past to support Nmap on Windows 2000, but
it seems that Microsoft aren't willing to support older (unsupported) OS
with Visual C++ 2010, which we're now using to build Nmap, Ncat and Nping.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=A7B7A05E-6DE6-4D
3A-A423-37BF0912DB84

Windows XP SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 are apparently the earliest OS that are
supported. The vcredist_x86.exe installer fails when I tried it on a fully
patched Windows 2000 Professional VM (I've not tried it on XP SP2, if it
does fail and requires SP3 then I suspect it's down to a policy decision
rather than technical reason). It tried to extract the files and then 2000
complains:

"Extract Failed"
"is not a valid Win32 application"

I haven't managed to quickly identify a way of getting the installer to
work.

I also had Zenmap crash on startup, although that could be down to my Python
build environment; I've not tried an official installer yet.

Is now a good time to (finally) officially drop support for Windows 2000,
and try to update all of the Nmap documentation?

Rob


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