This is the smb module for the OpenVAS Scanner. It includes the openvas-wmiclient library to interface with Microsoft Windows Systems through the Windows Management Instrumentation API and a wmic binary to execute queries remotely on that system.

This module can be configured, built and installed with following commands:

cmake .
make install

For detailed installation requirements and instructions, please see the file INSTALL.md.

If you are not familiar or comfortable building from source code, we recommend that you use the Greenbone Enterprise TRIAL, a prepared virtual machine with a readily available setup. Information regarding the virtual machine is available at https://www.greenbone.net/en/testnow.

For any question on the usage of openvas-smb please use the Greenbone Community Forum. If you found a problem with the software, please create an issue on GitHub. If you are a Greenbone customer you may alternatively or additionally forward your issue to the Greenbone Support Portal.

This project is maintained by Greenbone AG.

Your contributions are highly appreciated. Please create a pull request on GitHub. Bigger changes need to be discussed with the development team via the issues section at github first.

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later.

This module is derived from a package distributed by Zenoss, Inc., named wmi-1.3.14. The original location was: http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/inst/externallibs/wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2

Since then, various special patches were applied for some needs of OpenVAS Scanner. Also, anything not needed for OpenVAS Scanner was removed.

The Zenoss package actually was a copy of a code base of the Samba project (https://www.samba.org/), forked based on the GPL v2 licensed status.