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stingwray

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  1. I use windows server 2003 with active directory...

    Do you?

    I think you need to go out and buy yourself a nice big book on Active Directory, either from Microsoft or O'Reilly, then read it.

  2. Firstly the softare needs to be in .msi format, i can't be a .exe. So you will have to change all the software that you want to use over to .msi which can be a real pain.

    Then you need to use the Group Policy Object (GPO), you need to go into the policy group -> user configuration -> software settings -> software installtion. Its listed under users and computer. Then you can add the program there to be installed.

    I think thats how its done.

  3. <cough>the pirate bay</cough>

    Why would he want the pirate bay when he wants something Open Source. You know you don't have to pirate everything you use, heaven forbide that you use something free or maybe even pay for it!

  4. VMware Server is free (its still in beta atm but is quite stable) so that would give you the option of using VMware. I've had no expierance with Bochs, and if you say the manual is over your head then you probably shouldn't be using the program or trying to do what you are doing.

  5. I don't even know what you are asking for.

    From the sounds of it you need to cheak out Google anyway, and then you need to read the documentation of the programs that you are using, they will have all the commands and syntax that you need to use to run their programs in the command line.

  6. And is it hard to setup one of these things (Captive portals)? And is Radius hard to implement?

    You could replace your current router, or just set up a Monowall in the right place and that will allow you to run a Captive portal, with local user authentication. If you want to get into radius then you need to start to look at FreeRadius, but that is a beast. It seems like the config file is about 10km long, and its not particularly well documented. There are other radius servers out there but FreeRadius seems to be the most used and is past the v1.0 stage.

  7. Actually wait am I wrong in saying after you put Linux on a Router technically it becomes a gateway?

    Yes, what operating system the hardware is running does not determine what it does, whether it is Linux, Unix, a Cisco Firmware. Its the software that decides what the device is.

    So if you add gateway functions then it would be a gateway/router. But you have to remember most Linksys network hardware is already running a firmware which is based on Linux.

  8. Seen something like that a little while back. It looks cool but I'm willing to bet that it is completely useless.

    Firstly it shouldn't be USB, it should have PoE ethernet, so that you don't have to worry about stupid drivers etc.

    Plus its not as cool as if you build some embedded linux devices yourself.

  9. If the Captive Portal can authenticate against the Active Directory then it shouldn't have a problem. Most Captive Portals use Radius for authentication, to my memory Active Directory can be authenticated by Radius, so that would be the easiest way, but you might not want to change that over to Radius.

  10. Captive Portal with Radius authentication. I have that with a VPN pass through which enables me to have the actual wireless totally unsecrued (i.e. without WEP or WPA) but still know that no one is going to be able to get onto my LAN or my Internet.

    Never had much luck with wireless encyption myself.

  11. Most routers are simply a low powered processor with some ram and firmware. The firmware is just the software that the router is running and it will hold all the programs etc. that the router uses, like the http server for accesing the webgui.

    Linksys routers are particularly nice because most of them run firmware which is linux based and you can download the source code. This has ment that people have been able to easily modify the firmware because they know what they need to put in. Other manufactures routers don't seem to be as open, i certainly haven't seen any others that offer the source code.

    People do solder on extra items depending on what they want to do, there was a thread in the Hacks section about hacking the WRT54g in which some pictures were posted of adding a SD card reader to the router to add more storage.

    Most people don't hardware mod their routers, just flash with a new and hopefully improved bios. I think if you are the state of needing to complete large amounts of hardware mods to your router to make it work better then you need to start looking at running a more powerful computer as a router.

  12. why perform any hack

    ...because you can

    Performing a hack for the sack of it is just plain stupid. If you going to get something out of it, even knowledge or experiance is very good.

    But if your not getting anything out of it then you are wasting your time.

  13. probably running a captive potal with radius authentication, pretty tough get past, there was a topic about this recently in the everything else forum i think.

    the only way of getting around it that it pretty realistic is sniffing logins. otherwise it involves firewalls and application exploits which could take a while.

  14. There cool but cost too much. You can't RAID them but you could put them in JBOD to make it appear as one disc.

    They have an internal battery to keep them from losing all their data so in the event of a power failure but i think having an UPS would be a necessary requirement.

    Edit Seems PQI has a 64GB 2.5" Flash drive comming out this august at $2000! Crazy

    You have to remember thats Flash memory so won't be as nearly as fast as RAM, plus I don't know how those drives would last as its well known that Flash memory doesn't like to be constantly overwritten.

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