kroko\'s blog - Part 26

August 19, 2009

Total Commander: how to use the ssl/tls feature for secure ftp

Filed under: fuck windows — Tags: ftps, total commander, windows — admin @ 3:24 am

This is from: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=12105

Here is some information on how to use the ssl/tls feature. Because of the Swiss crypto export laws, I cannot include the openssl dlls in the install package.

1. Get the compiled OpenSSL package from the LibCurl library:
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
Please scroll down to the section named “Win32 – Generic”
and download the following package (or a newer one):
Win32 2000/XP 7.19.0 libcurl SSL enabled Günter Knauf 1.54 MB

2. Copy the two dlls libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll from the “bin” subdir of the archive to the Total Commander directory.
3. Now you can make connections with prefix ftps:// and https://

There will appear a red open locker for connections because the root certificates are missing. To get the root certificates of Verisign, Thawte etc, do the following:
1. Start Internet Explorer and open its configuration dialog
2. Go to the page “Content”
3. Click on “Certificates”
4. Go to the last page “Trusted root certificate authorities”
5. Select all certificates
6. Click on”Export”
7. As name, enter: rootcerts
8. Confirm with Next/OK. This creates a file rootcerts.p7b
9. Issue the following two commands to convert to openssl format:

openssl pkcs7 -inform DER -in rootcerts.p7b -print_certs -out unfiltered.pem
openssl x509 -in unfiltered.pem -out rootcert.pem

10. Put the file rootcert.pem in the Total Commander directory

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July 29, 2009

XP Automatic Update Nagging

Filed under: fuck windows — admin @ 3:08 am

Windows XP’s automatic update facility is clearly a good thing. Except when an update is installed that requires a reboot and you’re working on the computer at the time. Then you get this lovely dialog:

Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now?

As if I needed another reason to hate dialog boxes. This is perhaps the Naggiest. Dialog. Box. Ever. It can’t be dismissed. You get two choices– Restart Now, or Restart Later.If you click Restart Later, it pops up again ten minutes later, like clockwork. It belongs to wuauclt.exe, part of the Microsoft automatic update provider. I tried killing wuauclt.exe, and like a bad zombie movie, it keeps coming back.

I want automatic updates, but I also want to restart my computer when I feel like it. Is there any way to turn off this incredibly annoying nag dialog? UPDATE: Thanks to the many commenters, we now have at least two ways to disable Mister Naggy McNaggerson:

1. Stop the “Automatic Updates” service.

Navigate to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services:

Right click the Automatic Updates service and stop it. You can also do the same thing at the command line by typing:
net stop wuauserv
or you can type this, which does the same thing, and is a little easier to remember:
net stop "automatic updates"
After the service is stopped, the nag message stops, too. Then you can reboot when you have time. The service will restart when you reboot.

2. Modify Group Policy settings.

Start, Run “gpedit.msc” to bring up the group policy editor. Then navigate to the folder
Local Computer Policy
  Computer Configuration
    Administrative Templates
      Windows Components
        Windows Update
There are two settings and both will work, so it’s your choice. Either enable No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations to a long time interval, like 1440 minutes.

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May 15, 2009

Remote Access Service (RAS) Error Code List

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:23 am

This article lists the error codes that Remote Access Service (RAS) reports in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, and Windows 95.

MORE INFORMATION

   Error   Messages
   -------------------------------

   600     An operation is pending.
   601     The port handle is invalid.
   602     The port is already open.
   603     Caller's buffer is too small.
   604     Wrong information specified.
   605     Cannot set port information.
   606     The port is not connected.
   607     The event is invalid.
   608     The device does not exist.
   609     The device type does not exist.
   610     The buffer is invalid.
   611     The route is not available.
   612     The route is not allocated.
   613     Invalid compression specified.
   614     Out of buffers.
   615     The port was not found.
   616     An asynchronous request is pending.
   617     The port or device is already disconnecting.
   618     The port is not open.
   619     The port is disconnected.
   620     There are no endpoints.
   621     Cannot open the phone book file.
   622     Cannot load the phone book file.
   623     Cannot find the phone book entry.
   624     Cannot write the phone book file.
   625     Invalid information found in the phone book.
   626     Cannot load a string.
   627     Cannot find key.
   628     The port was disconnected.
   629     The port was disconnected by the remote machine.
   630     The port was disconnected due to hardware failure.
   631     The port was disconnected by the user.
   632     The structure size is incorrect.
   633     The port is already in use or is not configured for Remote
           Access dialout.
   634     Cannot register your computer on the remote network.
   635     Unknown error.
   636     The wrong device is attached to the port.
   637     The string could not be converted.
   638     The request has timed out.
   639     No asynchronous net available.
   640     A NetBIOS error has occurred.
   641     The server cannot allocate NetBIOS resources needed to support
           the client.
   642     One of your NetBIOS names is already registered on the remote
           network.
   643     A network adapter at the server failed.
   644     You will not receive network message popups.
   645     Internal authentication error.
   646     The account is not permitted to log on at this time of day.
   647     The account is disabled.
   648     The password has expired.
   649     The account does not have Remote Access permission.
   650     The Remote Access server is not responding.
   651     Your modem (or other connecting device) has reported an error.
   652     Unrecognized response from the device.
   653     A macro required by the device was not found in the device .INF
           file section.
   654     A command or response in the device .INF file section refers to
           an undefined macro
   655     The <message> macro was not found in the device .INF file
           section.
   656     The <defaultoff> macro in the device .INF file section contains
           an undefined macro
   657     The device .INF file could not be opened.
   658     The device name in the device .INF or media .INI file is too
           long.
   659     The media .INI file refers to an unknown device name.
   660     The device .INF file contains no responses for the command.
   661     The device .INF file is missing a command.
   662     Attempted to set a macro not listed in device .INF file section.
   663     The media .INI file refers to an unknown device type.
   664     Cannot allocate memory.
   665     The port is not configured for Remote Access.
   666     Your modem (or other connecting device) is not functioning.
   667     Cannot read the media .INI file.
   668     The connection dropped.
   669     The usage parameter in the media .INI file is invalid.
   670     Cannot read the section name from the media .INI file.
   671     Cannot read the device type from the media .INI file.
   672     Cannot read the device name from the media .INI file.
   673     Cannot read the usage from the media .INI file.
   674     Cannot read the maximum connection BPS rate from the media .INI
           file.
   675     Cannot read the maximum carrier BPS rate from the media .INI
           file.
   676     The line is busy.
   677     A person answered instead of a modem.
   678     There is no answer.
   679     Cannot detect carrier.
   680     There is no dial tone.
   681     General error reported by device.
   682     ERROR WRITING SECTIONNAME
   683     ERROR WRITING DEVICETYPE
   684     ERROR WRITING DEVICENAME
   685     ERROR WRITING MAXCONNECTBPS
   686     ERROR WRITING MAXCARRIERBPS
   687     ERROR WRITING USAGE
   688     ERROR WRITING DEFAULTOFF
   689     ERROR READING DEFAULTOFF
   690     ERROR EMPTY INI FILE
   691     Access denied because username and/or password is invalid on the
           domain.
   692     Hardware failure in port or attached device.
   693     ERROR NOT BINARY MACRO
   694     ERROR DCB NOT FOUND
   695     ERROR STATE MACHINES NOT STARTED
   696     ERROR STATE MACHINES ALREADY STARTED
   697     ERROR PARTIAL RESPONSE LOOPING
   698     A response keyname in the device .INF file is not in the
           expected format.
   699     The device response caused buffer overflow.
   700     The expanded command in the device .INF file is too long.
   701     The device moved to a BPS rate not supported by the COM driver.
   702     Device response received when none expected.
   703     ERROR INTERACTIVE MODE
   704     ERROR BAD CALLBACK NUMBER
   705     ERROR INVALID AUTH STATE
   706     ERROR WRITING INITBPS
   707     X.25 diagnostic indication.
   708     The account has expired.
   709     Error changing password on domain.
   710     Serial overrun errors were detected while communicating with
           your modem.
   711     RasMan initialization failure. Check the event log.
   712     Biplex port is initializing. Wait a few seconds and redial.
   713     No active ISDN lines are available.
   714     Not enough ISDN channels are available to make the call.
   715     Too many errors occurred because of poor phone line quality.
   716     The Remote Access IP configuration is unusable.
   717     No IP addresses are available in the static pool of Remote
           Access IP addresses.
   718     PPP timeout.
   719     PPP terminated by remote machine.
   720     No PPP control protocols configured.
   721     Remote PPP peer is not responding.
   722     The PPP packet is invalid.
   723     The phone number, including prefix and suffix, is too long.
   724     The IPX protocol cannot dial-out on the port because the
           computer is an IPX router.
   725     The IPX protocol cannot dial-in on the port because the IPX
           router is not installed..
   726     The IPX protocol cannot be used for dial-out on more than one
           port at a time.
   727     Cannot access TCPCFG.DLL.
   728     Cannot find an IP adapter bound to Remote Access.
   729     SLIP cannot be used unless the IP protocol is installed.
   730     Computer registration is not complete.
   731     The protocol is not configured.
   732     The PPP negotiation is not converging.
   733     The PPP control protocol for this network protocol is not
           available on the server.
   734     The PPP link control protocol terminated..
   735     The requested address was rejected by the server..
   736     The remote computer terminated the control protocol.
   737     Loopback detected..
   738     The server did not assign an address.
   739     The remote server cannot use the Windows NT encrypted password.
   740     The TAPI devices configured for Remote Access failed to
           initialize or were not installed correctly.
   741     The local computer does not support encryption.
   742     The remote server does not support encryption.
   743     The remote server requires encryption.
   744     Cannot use the IPX net number assigned by the remote server.
           Check the event log.
   752     A syntax error was encountered while processing a script.