After having to look this up a third time, I found a post on Vonnie’s blog about it. I made a copy here. In short, Microsoft fucked up and you’re left with the command line to do this, unless the wireless network is in range. The following commands list all the WIFI networks you have […]
When changing your password on a samba (Linux) server, the tokens a Windows machine holds get invalidated, yet Windows does not automatically prompt for new credentials. Instead, it consistently says “access denied” when trying to access a previously available share, say, \\myfineserver\share If you previously mapped this drive, disconnecting is trivial in explorer, but if […]
Download Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) Install Cygwin, selecting the autossh package. Start the Cygwin shell (Start -> Programs -> Cygwin). Generate a public/private key pair. At the command line, run: ssh-keygen Accept the default file locations Use an empty passphrase Copy your newly-created public key to the SSH server. scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub user@ssh.host.name:id_rsa.pub Add your public key to […]
On a single user desktop, you might want to run cygwin sshd autostarted as a specific user, without privilege separation. Here’s a short reference: Disable UAC Open a Cygwin terminal ssh-host-config Select “no” on privilege separation Enter nothing, [], as the value of CYGWIN for the daemon Select “yes” to use a different username than […]
After IE6, usernames and passwords in URL’s are no longer enabled by default in Internet Explorer, the reasoning being that saving usernames and passwords in the browser history and referral headers is a very, very bad idea. Still, it’s sometimes needed, especially when dealing with old IP cameras, which is when I last bumped into […]
While Windows 7 let you disable UAC by simply typing “UAC” into the search field on the start menu and disabling it from the UAC options that show up, Windows 8 made it a bit more complicated. In short, press Windows+R, type secpol.msc, go to “Local Policies => Security Options” and set “User Account Control: […]
You need to install XP SP3, available here for English versions.
I have no idea how many blank CD’s I’ve seen wasted on having a file system with a single .iso file on them. Then, I found this page: http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm It tells you how to burn an image with basically any Windows-based software out there. If someone runs Linux, I assume they can figure it out […]
rdesktop on Linux will give this warning message when connecting to a Windows machine which has not been configured for 24-bit color RDP connections. This has, amongst other things, the effect of showing some horrible, jaggy desktop icons. See the pictures on the right for reference. On Vista, Windows 7 and later (?), the solution […]
Use RegEdit (start->run->”regedit”) to go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ Add, if one does not exist, a key called “SpecialAccounts” Under that, add a key called “UserList” Create new DWORD (32-bit) keys for each user you want to hide in your newly formed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist Make the name of each DWORD the EXACT username you want to […]