Daersun Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 What changes do you guys make to a default install of 2003 server before hosting clients? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogie Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 There's a "bunch" of services I disable, and I make sure its firewalled... Pretty much everything I dont use I turn off (file sharing for example), and make sure that the machine is firewalled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defcon|Rich Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Take a look at this site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Bickle Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Make sure you turn off DEP (Data Execution Prevention) for applications, check it for windows services only. This will interfere with a lot of game server applications including mods. This is how you do it, Start, Control Panel. Go to System & then the Advanced Tab. Under Performance, choose Settings. In Settings, select the Data Execution Prevention tab. Make sure "Turn on DEP for essential windows programs and services only" is checked off. If "Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I choose" is checked, change it. This will allow modifications to run with certain game server executables instead of causing a "threat" and a fatal service error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daersun Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 yah - dep is the devil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24play1 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 I find even doing that still lets DEP be an arse with some games. I experienced it with SOF2 even tho I had set it as stated above by Travis. I have now just edited all my boot.ini files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Editing the boot.ini files is the only way to disable DEP in most cases. Keep in mind there are also 2 different kinds of DEP. Software and hardware. Some systems also require changes to be made in the system's bios to shut down the hardware DEP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betray Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Great thread.. id like more info on this. maybe we can get a list of default win2k3 services to kill. windows audio? Print Spooler? IMAPI CD-Burning Wireless Configuration DHCP - if you dont use it obviously I tried that http://www.windowsecurity.com site, but cant find anything usefull. It sucks being the n00b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcngs Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 How do you disable Data Execution Prevention through the boot.ini? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 http://www.housing.hawaii.edu/resources/support/turnoff-dep.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest louise Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Hi As that link is dead this is the official MS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RackGaming Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Anyone have a full list of services to disable with a fresh 2003 install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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