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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

 

XP Lockdown

Whilst not only trying to vainly finish configuring the site, particularly the archives, I am also trying to reconfigure the home network (and a small subnet at work for that matter). Part of the prompting for this is to allow my work laptop to seamlessly shift between work and home with the minimum of fuss.
The other is I am paranoid I may have missed something whilst setting the network up over time, such as locking down the various services and shares that XP runs insidiously in the background. I know I know, if I wanted it to be easy and secure I would be continuing to develop it using Red Hat, as I had initially intended. Sadly though, with all our existing software and data, as well as one of us not knowing anything about linux, it was easier to stick with Microsoft.

UK Security online provide a simple checklist that has some of the more essential steps without all the waffle and marketing spiel that is accompanied with the Microsoft guides, and is as good a place to start as any.

For generic information, the Microsoft Windows XP Home Networking area provides some helpful documents, although many share similar content. By far the most useful is the Windows Resource Kit which contains all the setting information for the Local Security Policies.

Other useful information include Labmice's Security
Checklist can be found at the top of the page and contains lots of generic valuable information which has some good links.

Now I have these guides, its just a matter to sit down, erase the old and put in the new. Wish I has a couple of spare 250Gb hdd lying about so I could reformat and start afresh as I havent done that for a year or so. I could always just do the OS partition, but I prefer to start afresh. Plus, that way it has to work and it has to work right. No nasty legacy configuration settings or old files that'll fail when you need them most.

I'm sure that when it all goes wrong and none of the boxes can see each other, someone will remind me it was my idea in the first place.

19 Apr 2004 22:50 | (0) comments | site

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