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A while back I wrote a piece about how to Secure the hell out of your Linux box, and I thought I’d follow up with the same but for the Windows world. Yes yes, this is a Linux blog and this kind of post won’t happen all that often, or possibly never again, but security I feel is far more important than technological allegiances.
Method #1: Requires access to the box by some account other than the one you need.
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Method #2: Download the ophcrack live cd burn the iso to cd, boot your computer off the cd, and ophcrack should spend 5-15 minutes to crack the password.
Method #3: Cain and Abel Password Cracker (can be used over a network)
What? You think it’d be harder? From a company that never treats security seriously anyways?
To easily share your files to linux and windows clients, samba is still the preferred choice. In this guide I will show how to setup a samba server on centos 5 machine, that can be accessed only by certain people protected by password.
Related Reading: How to setup a Samba Server
If you’re a web developer you’ll need a machine with access to Internet Explorer to test the work you’re doing. Or maybe you just want to play around. Either way you’ll need Wine. Wine allows users to run many (definitely not all) windows applications. Due to the recent effort Google has put behind Wine, even Adobe CS2 and CS3 run great on Linux.
Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients. If you would like to setup a server so Windows users can access shared directories, this tutorial is for you.
