Hot answers tagged windows-server-2008-core
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As jscott said, you really need to provide more info (make/model) of the system and the NIC. That being said, if this is server class hardware and you just ran the install directly off a Microsoft retail/Volume license media, it's a pretty good bet that you need to get the driver for the NIC. If you have drivers you can install them in core using the ...
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Pull the network cable out. I'm sure the RPC service is much more secure than it used to be but having ports 135 and 445 open to the world would make anyone who had to deal with the Blaster and Sasser worm more than a little nervous.
Set the firewall to block everything inbound.
Only allow the traffic you want, from the IP addresses you want it from.
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