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Switches route packets based on MAC addresses, correct? Whereas hubs do not? Why would that help if my LAN will probably never consist of more than 3 devices? Anymore input on how I can route the traffic would be great, thanks.

Yes, it's a hub. I got it for free about a year ago and I'm rather broke. Would a switch be that much better? I thought about bridging them, but like I said, I need access to my laptop to stream videos to my Xbox or share files with other computers on the LAN.

My setup: Laptop (running Windows 7) - connected wirelessly to router and internet. -Wireless: DHCP, 192.168.2.x -LAN: Static. --IP: 192.168.0.1 --Mask: 255.255.255.0 Hub - connected to laptop's LAN card Xbox (running XBMC) - DHCP, connected to hub Various other systems that might be connected at one time or another - DHCP, connected to hub I was using Tftpd32 manually for a while but I decided I'd like to make my setup somewhat permanent by including the hub and running Tftpd32 at startup. Minimizing Tftpd32 to the system tray is buggy though (popping up at least twice every boot up before minimizing to tray) and the newest version doesn't even maintain the server interface I select (LAN NIC). I found this instead and I really like it, especially since it can start as a service, is has no GUI, and it immediately goes to the tray. I've got it working with the DHCP and all, but what I would like is to have my Xbox and other systems have access to the internet as well as my laptop. I read a bit about subnets and IP routing, but I don't understand everything and nothing I have tried has worked. Everywhere I've looked, people are told to setup a firewall or proxy server on the "middle" computer, but I'd rather not do something like this because I'm sure there is another, simpler way to achieve what I'd like. Using a proxy server would also mean I'd have to setup the other devices to use the proxy for all connections other than local ones. So, I'd appreciate everybody's input on the different ways I could effectively use DHCP to give out addresses, allow the networked computers to access the internet, and still maintain access to my laptop. p.s. I tried Windows built in ICS, but when it was enabled I didn't have access to my laptop from my Xbox or any other computers. I want more control over it than ICS gives anyways. Also, the wireless router has DHCP and DNS servers running (if that helps). Thanks in advance.

Correct, virtually any flash media (USB, SD card, etc.) should be bootable if the system supports it. The Switchblade and other similar projects exploit the U3 feature of some flash drives that allows part of the media to show up as a CD, which means if autorun is enabled, the system is vulnerable. What you could try is PLoP. I've had some success with it, but every system is different.

The menu.lst pretty much is the Grub configuration. It sounds like it is the computer though that's hindering you from booting from USB in the first place.

What actually happens when you try to boot? Have you tried it on another computer? You could test it in my VM that allows booting from USB. You can also take screen shots and record video with VMware which might aid in troubleshooting your problems.

Give TestDisk a shot. It's said to be able to recover lost or damaged partitions. I tried it on a formatted flash drive, just hoping it might be able to recover a semi-formatted drive (Gonzor's U3 creator thing screwed it up) but ended up with nothing. It might be what you're looking for though, since yours wasn't really formatted. Even better would be to make a complete image of your drive and use TestDisk on the image first, instead of your actually drive.

O_o Did you even bother to read the (two year old) thread?

http://hackaday.com/2009/10/05/pocket-multimeter-review/ And, as mentioned before, no one tool will do everything, buy a small ready-made case or assemble your own if you would like. If you think you're going to be making T568A/T568B cables (ethernet: cat 5, 5e, and 6), you will need little more than some type of wire cutter or even scissors because the connector cuts the insulation, making a solid connection with the copper wire inside. If you plan on doing any intermediate to advanced network setup or testing you might want to get a cable tester.

No mention of USB support, plus, even if there was USB support, auto-saving to A:\hashes.txt would commit the changes only into memory if you mapped the image. Maybe Vagabound, or whoever, could take a look at it and modify it to our needs? No promises, but I'm attempting to build a Linux distro completely from scratch that should be able to export hashes to a flash drive. I've never done anything like this before though, so it might be a complete disaster, we'll just have to see.

Does it go on a continuous loop about the file system being case sensitive? If so, and you're running Windows 7, it looks like it could be Windows 7 causing the problem. Mine does the same thing with GParted, and so does my cousins. I haven't been able to find out why it does this yet but I'll continue googling it.

What I've found about such error deals with ASCII characters in filenames. Try and see if you've got any filenames that could contain any ASCII characters, rename them, and see if that stops the problem.

Yeah, it looks like the casper folder needs to be on the root of your drive. You could just map the ISO like Eteris did and see if that works. It's likely that you don't even need to have all the extra parameters shown, you could just chainload it with something like: title Helix3 map /path/to/file.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32)

What is the structure of the ISO itself? It might be searching for essential files/folders on the root drive and not in /boothelix like your setup

I've run into a couple problems with Back|Track and it seems I'll have to do a bit more than I did with Ophcrack to get it to change the directory. I also want to make some other changes to it, like remove the idiotic message "remove the disk and press Enter to reboot" (or whatever it says), when you reboot, which means changing the actual squashfs, but I've found guides and I'll just incorporate them into my guide. I'm pretty flooded with homework and stuff for school, while also getting preoccupied with another project I'm trying to come up with, which I think I'll call the SAMGrabber (a very small Linux distro that will automatically and silently save the SAM and SYSTEM files of a Windows machine to your flash drive upon boot :) ), but I'll get back to the Back|Track project though and hopefully I'll be able to complete it before too long.

Yeah, I know how Linux mounts drives. I just thought that with the command "-rawdisk /dev/sdb" mad a rawdisk image of the drive as ~/mnt/new_usb.vmdk. That's cool though. If you've tried my VM, does your solution with VirtualBox run faster than mine with VMware? Your English is pretty good for it being a foreign language, by the way.

C:\Windows\System32\config is where the SAM and SYSTEM files can be found on Windows 7 so I'm pretty sure it's the same for Vista.

I've hardly messed with VirtualBox, and it was only on a Windows machine, but it seems like you're just making an image of your flash drive and booting from that, or am I wrong?

Wow... I'm kind of disappointed in myself for not realizing such a thing was possible... I mean, that's what I do with DeepFreeze... Anyways, thanks for that Moonlit. I'm still interested in hearing a bit about what everybody else uses for cracking passes though, as I think I'm going to try to learn more about such things.

I want to see the original post...

I agree, getting into a Windows box is easy, but you can't always remove/reset the password or use Kon-Boot, and sometimes you'd just like to know the password. When trying to access a machine more passively, you cannot remove the password or change it.

With more and more people using Vista and Win7, I decided it was time to get my NT hash cracking on. So, I installed Windows 7 in a VM, setup up some lame test accounts: Username:Password Test:seven lame:lame lamepass:lamepass yourmom:yourmom 18j4:18j4 I then ran it through Ophcrack. What came up? Nothing but "lame" and "l8j4" and they were only found because Ophcrack bruteforces from 1-4 characters. I was quite surprised that the other passwords couldn't be found... I know Ophcrack exploits the weak LM hash used in XP and preceding, while the Vista Free tables are based on a dictionary and mutations, but I still figured that it would find all of those lame passwords... Yet, it didn't. I was just wondering, if any of you have cracked some NT hashes, be it from Vista or Windows 7, did you use Ophcrack? What was the password? What tables did you use? And, how long did it take? If you use something other than Ophcrack (JTR, Cain, etc.), what do you use? What tables do you use and how large are they? On average, how long does it take you to crack an NT hash?

It looks like TheHermit's fix in his tutorial (step 3) might be what you'll need to do.

200+ downloads! I'm also trying to figure out a way to use QEMU as it is said to be possible.