So I've read multiple tutorials and done a bunch of googling before asking this, but I seem to be missing an obvious step that I can't find.
I installed powershell 3.0 and simply want to use the following command
Get-SmbConnection
But I get an error that it is unrecognized.
Its my...
Doing a year free trial of that AWS is an interesting option to think about. Although I'm hoping to find a way to actually run this from home.
If I just run the webserver on a nonstandard port, a port scan of its IP address will still reveal all my other nonstandard ports, and it won't really...
I'd like to setup a home web server, inside of a DMZ at home. Nothing high end, just primarily for experimentation, personal use, or maybe very limited visitors.
I am very security conscious though. I do have other private services running at home inside my network like SSH, security cameras...
Anyone have any suggestions.
I'd like to be able to basically have text files of various notes I take, but be able to access them on windows/linux/android, and have them synchronized so I can add to them from any device, but also securely encrypted and password protected. Any Ideas?
I was...
Agreed. Thanks for the very good link with the wealth of information.
Also I found using the portable app "curr ports" is helpful. It is actually extremely similar to the popular TCPview, but it seemed like it did a slightly better job with this one particular task. In curr ports if you...
So I'm determined to learn how to uncover all the nuances of the mysterious svchost, mainly for learning purposes.
I've learned that svchost is basically a process for running various dll files. I've learned that you can use the sysinternals tool to find out exactly which dll's are being run...
I love portable apps, but theres something I could never find the answer to.
Why do many portable apps out there still need to be "installed". They come as an exe file, and you specify the location, and they make the files and folders in that location.
Why is that necessary? There are other...
So that makes sense how one connection could show up as two. And it makes sense if 2 different applications were to communicate with each other like this, or a service communicating with a corresponding application. However I still don't understand why a single application would communicate...
Why is it that so often software programs are running TCP connections with themselves? Usually in pairs, like some sort of strange loopback connection.
Looking at netstat or TCP view, I often find things like this.
my color calibration software has 2 TCP connections at all times.
local...
I'm having an issue with my router, which is handling the PPPoE for my DSL connection. (The modem is a transparent bridge).
Anyways, for some reason occasionally I am loosing my internet connection. It says it is "connected", yet I can't even get a ping to go through. I click disconnect, then...
OK, well as far as the issue that was brought up about a hub vs switch, 1 port router vs 5 port router, etc.
What exactly happens with the situation of the latter? Meaning you have a typical router with 4 ports built in, then you feed the wire from one lan port of the router, through the...
For the sake of the question, I'll use a typical single family home as an example, with a couple streaming devices here and there, and 20Mbps internet.
If you plan to run some direct ethernet connections, and there are say 5 devices in a media area which you want to hard wire directly to the...
I constantly hear of people retiring their old Wireless - G routers, and getting new ones. But is this really necessary?
Considering wireless G is 54 Mbps, but most ISP's are only about 20-25
Mbps (at least around me), it seems like the router is more than capable of drawing maximum speed...
I have 2 routers, and have some IP cameras and other gadgets that aren't considered the most secure that I want to be able to open up to WAN access. I want to find the safest way to segregate them from other more important computers in my network, so that in case someone were to hack into one...
So I've done some basic networking with linux, but not yet in windows. I'm trying to figure out what the typical options are for remote access through secure 256-bit encryption in windows.
In linux you can use SSH, which allows you to very easily tunnel any sort of traffic through a 256-bit...
I do actually use WPA2 with a long passkey, but I've always used mac filtering also, even though I know it does very little.
So both devices recieve each other's traffic? Do they both get assigned the same IP address, and does the router see them as one? Could any of the hacker's traffic...
So I know most people say mac filtering is pretty much pointless, because any potential hacker can easily spoof their mac address to match one of yours.
However, if they did do that, what happens when 2 devices both have the same mac address. Wouldn't there be conflicts? Wouldn't one device...
I like the idea of the VPN, does anyone happen to know if any of the free VPN's or proxies will allow traffic from all programs?
I have tried using Tor before, and I know it works for this purpose as far as accessing web based stuff, like running an IP camera on port 80. I could connect to...
Hope I'm explaining this right, its difficult to put into words.
I'm wondering if there is any way to test your own network the same way that it would be seen from accessing it remotely over the internet (connecting from a different network over your wan ip)? Something like connecting...
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I thought about bringing a usb hard drive, and still might, but really want the storage remote simply because I figure if something bad were to happen to the laptop such as a theft, then that same thing would most likely happen to the usb hard drive too...
Just trying to get pointed in the right direction. Perhaps there is an even better way to do this that i'm not thinking of.
I plan on going on vacation later this year, and I'm sure I will take a lot of photos and HD video. I would upload the videos to my laptop each night to clear room on...
This may be an over simplified question, but I recently have read a lot about hashing of passwords and it made me wonder. Since passwords are hashed, do most websites or any admins in general have no way to know what your password is even on their own system?
For example, I always used to...
I'm new to this so feel free to correct me if anything I'm assuming is wrong.
I'm trying to find out if there is a way (simple enough for a beginner) to do a port scan on my own WAN IP (such as found at whatismyip.com).
I've been able to do it from a seperate internet connection using my...
I'm very new to networking, learning through various online tutorials.
Anyways, I did an online port scan on my IP, and found out that port 4567 is open.
Now in my googling/research I've found that this can possibly be a port used by ISP's to update router firmware (in my case it would be...
It really seems like lately many people are very concerned about Brute Force threats. Whether its a server, personal account, network, etc. There is a lot of talk about making extremely long and challenging passwords to be brute force proof.
But I don't quite understand why it is as great...
I am relatively new to networking. I've set up basic home networks/wifi. But never done anything involving accessing my network externally.
I have just done about 10 hours of general reading about this stuff, but have been having a very tough time trying to figure out just how they compare...
Thanks for the info. Seems the general consensus leans towards the dual router / double nat setup, so I will read up more on how to do that, and plan to set it up.
Can anyone help explain, in somewhat newbie terms just how a hacker would potentially compromise my network if they first...
I want to experiment with a personal home server, primarily just for learning purposes. Maybe will set up a ftp server, web page (just for me personally), maybe run some NVR software to record from my IP cameras, etc.
Hoping to use some older hardware, maybe even a laptop, and run either...
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