A little bit of wisdom
I was trying to mount a CIFS / SAMBA share on Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy). I wasn’t being prompted for a password, I would simply get: mount -t cifs -o user=admin //10.1.1.10/BLAH remote/ mount: block device //10.1.1.10/BLAH is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: cannot mount block device //10.1.1.10/BLAH read-only I needed to install “cifs-utils” apt-get install […]
Create a bootable USB stick and install Windows 7 from a USB drive using this guide. Third party software doesn’t always work as it’s supposed to. With this BootableUSB guide all you need is to ensure that your motherboard supports USB booting, and this is a common feature now for most computers. This step by […]
Updated 11th July 2017 Manual ARP in Firewall 1 NG If you must use manual NAT rules on win 2000 (and later!), do the following: 1. Create c:\windows\fw1\R62\fw1\conf\local.arp file as per the format below. 2. Uncheck “Automatic Arp Configuration” in Global Properties 3. Check the setting under the Manual Nat settings in Global Properties. 4. […]
I’m running VPN-1 UTM and this tricked worked fine. Looking at the registry, there are several keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CheckPoint\FW1\ which look to pertain to whichever version you have installed. Under the top level key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CheckPoint\FW1\ is a “CurrentVersion” String. Mine is “6.0” so I navigated to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CheckPoint\FW1\6.0 and created the “FWLOGDIR” string there, restarted the […]
*UPDATED Now replaced with a simple one line command: openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout my.servername.key -nodes -x509 -days 999 -out my.servername.crt The above command will generate a self signed certificate and key (used for signing the certificate) OLD Method: Generating SSL keys for use with Apache. Two files are required to generate your own secure […]
Using .htaccess files with Apache Outside of your web directory (best in /home/httpd/ ) you need to create the file(s) (you can have more than one) that contain the user names and passwords. Step 1: This can be done thus: htpasswd /home/httpd/.sysinfo admin Note the dot (.) in front of .sysinfo !!!! (that’s a hidden […]
Traffic which should be blocked by routers (Cisco specific) There are a number of Internet addresses and packet types which a site router should always block. In most cases there is no legitimate reason for this traffic to appear on a public network, so any occurence indicates either a misconfigured host somewhere on the Internet […]
SHOW COMMANDS – CISCO ROUTERS (some command relevant to Cisco switches too) Show version – software version, config files, boot images, config register, basic config of router Show ipx interface – status, ipx rip and sap received/sent, ipx access-lists Show ipx route – ipx routing table Show ipx servers – server list (name, port, hops, […]
*** NOTE: this was written several years ago – but may still be useful *** VLANS Increase security and ease administration and relocation. Break up broadcast domains. VLANS work at layer 2 and 3 of OSI model. Communication between VLANs uses layer 3 routing. 3 ways of assigning a switched port to VLANs: Port-Centric – […]
** note – this is several years old now – but much of it is still useful ** Cisco CCNA Certification Study Guide Ctrl+Shift+6 then X – Allows you to open more than one telnet session. Only the Hardware addresses change when packets go through routers. Half duplex Ethernet – One station can only send […]
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