Net config command

[misaro]

Hi,
net config server /hidden:yes

What's happens if I run this command above on any of my
domain controllers . they will not be visible any more.
Its possible to have possible errors trying to hide my
DC's form the network. Obviously they will be up but not
visible !!

Thanks any help !!

 

[Dave Shaw [MVP]]

Well, considering your DCs must expose the NETLOGON and SYSVOL shares to
your users, I'd say you would have a problem.

More to the point - why would you ever want to do such a thing?

-ds

 

[Guest]

Per article 128167, using /hidden just hides it from the browse list. Were you to set this on a DC, legacy clients may be impacted, but 2000 and later clients that use DNS to locate the DC will still logon, etc. Sysvol, netlogon and the administrative shares (admin$, ipc$, c$) will still be accessible as normal.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=12816

But there are still tools that depend on the browse list to find/connect to a machine, so I would advised against it.

And overall, I'm curious why you'd want to do this anyway. There is no security benefit from doing this.