Obey Cy-Fox. He is 'root'

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Obey Cy-Fox. He is 'root'; in his own server XD
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Cy-Fox	Nov 30 2008, 11:12 AM Post #1
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	In my junior and senior years in high school, I attended a vocational school and took their Network Systems program. In my senior year, we had to do a project in English class demonstrating new knowledge gained from our program. So I took it upon myself to attempt to create a virtual network on one computer where virtualized Windows, MS-DOS, Linux and NetWare servers could communicate amongst each other AND with the actual school network and Internet. We were learning NetWare 6.5 but I couldn't secure access to it because there wasn't a license available to use. But the technical coordinator was awesome enough to dig up a complete copy of Novell NetWare 4.11 in the warehouse and let me use it. After the project was complete, she even went as far as to allow me to keep it all, including the 250 user license (Stop drooling Veemon, you're going to slime the topic! :P) I decided to on a limited scale, recreate my project on my Windows 98/Windows XP workstation in my room. NetWare only runs decently on VMWare Server, so I set it up in there. The server was set up to run on 32MB of virtualized RAM, and a 1 GB virtual hard drive. As the workstation doesn't have a NIC, I set the server to basically use VMWare's built in network. After all of that jazz was done, I fired the VM up. The first step in NetWare 4.11 installation is to set up DOS. NetWare 5.1 and higher came with a version of Caldera DR-DOS to boot off of. I slapped in Disk 1 of MS-DOS 6.22 and went through the motions of partitioning and formatting the hard drive and swapping disks when DOS was ready to be copied. Next step was to establish CD-ROM support. DOS doesn't come with any hardware drivers for CD-ROMs, so I threw my Windows 98 CD in and booted off of it to its built-in copy of DOS with CD-ROM support. I threw its driver, OAKCDROM.SYS in my hard drive's DOS directory, changed over to the directory itself and EDITed AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to get the driver going. After the required reboot, I slapped in my NetWare 4.11 CD and also the license floppy. I switched over to the CD drive and ran INSTALL. I named the server "CYFOX1" and set up NetWare Directory Services (NDS) with a directory named "SSOURCE". I then found the NetWare supported NIC driver for VMWare Server's virtualized NIC and fed it in. From there it came off without a hitch. The next thing to do after that was to establish a workstation so that I could fully administrate the server. The original plan was to set up a DOS 6.22 VM with Windows 3.1 added to it, but then I remembered that DOS itself has its own take on the Windows GUI program "NetWare Administrator". I went through the same motions as before to set up a VM. This time I give DOS 6.22 16 MB of RAM and a 900 MB hard drive. I fed it its disks, copied OAKCDROM.SYS from the Windows 98 CD again, enabled CD-ROM support and had DOS fully operational. Then I popped in the NetWare 4.11 CD again, started INSTALL and this time selected Client Installation. I picked Client32 for DOS, set up NIC support and had a cup of tea while it copied the client files. Rebooted and I got this at the end of AUTOEXEC.BAT: For awhile, I stumbled around trying to remember where I had to run LOGIN from. Figured out that it was on a shared drive named F: I switched to F: and ran LOGIN, identifying myself as "Admin" with success Now it was time to actually do something. I switched over to the server VM and loaded the "MONITOR" module Before I logged in: After I logged in: My connection status: I switched back over to the DOS VM and fired up NETADMIN. I told it to show what current objects were in the NDS database I set up. It was just me ("Admin") and two volumes. I needed (l)users to play around with. So I created a user named "Veemon" (Tails0600). I didn't take the time to screenshot it, but I did screenshot the next two user creations I did. Those were RevivalDBM (RevivalDBM) and TUlysses (T. Ulysses and Crusader): I then opened up the RevivalDBM dummy account directly and instructed NETADMIN to show me what his rights to the objects on NDS are. That done, I then tested the Search function by telling NETADMIN to find TUC's account. Lo and behold... There was TUC. I got out of NETADMIN and then did a DIR through all of the directories that I had access to. Then I decided to have one more bit of fun. I used the SEND command from the server VM's console to show this on my DOS VM: I then logged out from the DOS VM and shut it down. The NetWare VM's still running. Now I have a NetWare 4.11 server to fiddle with and learn Edited by Cy-Fox, Nov 30 2008, 11:13 AM.



Gale	Nov 30 2008, 11:24 AM Post #2
<3 Posts: 1,779 Group: S Rank Hero Member #3,090 Joined: October 23, 2007 Gender: Female	I feel kind of ashamed about how little of that I actually understood. By the way, page stretch.



Lord Master of Darkness�	Nov 30 2008, 11:27 AM Post #3
Posts: 6,570 Group: Former Monarchs Member #6,063 Joined: February 19, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag: The Stig Pwnz Steam ID: mod1982	MAH BOI, being able to take the time to understand that is what all true warriors strive for Could you kinda like summarise that into Homer Simpson-style lingo? My pills are making me head go funny.
	Click to go to my YouTube channel - now over 1,200 subscribers! The Gaming MoD - a blog about gaming, by the Master of Darkness. Other links! Great comics currently in existence on SB(and my own, of course): \|Compensation\|~~Bar'd~~\|~~Park And Ride~~\|~~Sonic: Quest for the Chaos Energy~~\| Want your comic here? Make it a good one then! Where to find me on the net: \|~~Bleached Horizons~~\|~~Pitwall F1~~\|DevART\|


Gallant Vision	Nov 30 2008, 11:32 AM Post #4
Sky Sanctuary Zone Posts: 6,835 Group: B Rank Legend Member #9,330 Joined: September 4, 2008	brain pops a fuse
	I have an interest in spriting. If anyone has a request, don't hesitate to ask. Deep stuff below: Spoiler: click to toggle The world. Filled with millions of differences. But despite the fact, we all are brothers and sisters, Inhabiting and living under the same sky. But despite this, we war and kill our siblings over trivial things, Staining the earth on which we all walk, With the blood of our brothers, With the blood of our sisters. The sky under which we go through our lives weeps, For the clouds surely know of the atrocities we commit. We slay, maim, gouge, and destroy our siblings, In the name of things which ought not be fought for. Approach a member of the family not, With the tainted lash of hatred, But with the pure flower of love. ======================================= The sword. A weapon who's blade is stained red With the blood of its countless victims. Were it alive, what would such a being feel? Would it live only to fight, And fight only to live? Would it be controlled By those with the skill to do so? I believe that it would cry For each person it has ever brought harm to, Its tears as red as the blood it has spilled.


Cy-Fox	Nov 30 2008, 11:46 AM Post #5
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Okay MoD. Picture a box full of air. A closed box. This box has a special feature though. At its owner's command, it can create another box out of air inside itself and more boxes if there's enough room. These boxes can interact with each other and also the outside world. That's the concept of a virtual machine. A computer within a computer. The physical one that you can see, hear and touch is the giant box, and the virtual ones are the little ones inside.



Lord Master of Darkness�	Nov 30 2008, 11:48 AM Post #6
Posts: 6,570 Group: Former Monarchs Member #6,063 Joined: February 19, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag: The Stig Pwnz Steam ID: mod1982	The pills tell me they understand that. Now I'm going to sleep on that, and wake up and read that again - bearing in mind your amusing post thanks, my cycloptic colleague!
	Click to go to my YouTube channel - now over 1,200 subscribers! The Gaming MoD - a blog about gaming, by the Master of Darkness. Other links! Great comics currently in existence on SB(and my own, of course): \|Compensation\|~~Bar'd~~\|~~Park And Ride~~\|~~Sonic: Quest for the Chaos Energy~~\| Want your comic here? Make it a good one then! Where to find me on the net: \|~~Bleached Horizons~~\|~~Pitwall F1~~\|DevART\|


Cy-Fox	Nov 30 2008, 12:23 PM Post #7
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Any time. And cycloptic? You mean cybernetic. CN=Cy-Fox.OU=Administrators.O=SonicBlast signing off



Lord Master of Darkness�	Dec 1 2008, 03:57 AM Post #8
Posts: 6,570 Group: Former Monarchs Member #6,063 Joined: February 19, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag: The Stig Pwnz Steam ID: mod1982	No, cycloptic. Look at that face - there's ONE FREAKING EYE that extends into his FOREHEAD. I'm half-expecting it to do a KITT or a Cylon impression, complete with sound FX! "Vhrrrrrrm-vhrrrrm...." Plus also it's a nice little line that Doctor Evil uses a couple of times. I've wanted to use it for some time.
	Click to go to my YouTube channel - now over 1,200 subscribers! The Gaming MoD - a blog about gaming, by the Master of Darkness. Other links! Great comics currently in existence on SB(and my own, of course): \|Compensation\|~~Bar'd~~\|~~Park And Ride~~\|~~Sonic: Quest for the Chaos Energy~~\| Want your comic here? Make it a good one then! Where to find me on the net: \|~~Bleached Horizons~~\|~~Pitwall F1~~\|DevART\|


Cy-Fox	Dec 1 2008, 05:19 AM Post #9
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	KITT's more like 'Whooom-whooo....Whooom-hooo." XP. Ask Bliz



Lord Master of Darkness�	Dec 1 2008, 05:52 AM Post #10
Posts: 6,570 Group: Former Monarchs Member #6,063 Joined: February 19, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag: The Stig Pwnz Steam ID: mod1982	Maybe. But if you pretend you're holding a lightsaber then it's instantly the best noise in the world. I should make that my MSN message noise. It is useless to resist. On-topic, I think I understand that now after a long night's sleep. [goes to take today's happy pill] grats, you now have the ability to talk geekspeek
	Click to go to my YouTube channel - now over 1,200 subscribers! The Gaming MoD - a blog about gaming, by the Master of Darkness. Other links! Great comics currently in existence on SB(and my own, of course): \|Compensation\|~~Bar'd~~\|~~Park And Ride~~\|~~Sonic: Quest for the Chaos Energy~~\| Want your comic here? Make it a good one then! Where to find me on the net: \|~~Bleached Horizons~~\|~~Pitwall F1~~\|DevART\|


Cy-Fox	Dec 1 2008, 10:02 AM Post #11
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	I've had the ability to speak geek for a long time. It's just that there's been more of a use to speak assassin.



Neo Metallix	Dec 1 2008, 10:38 AM Post #12
~Doomsday Overlord~ Posts: 15,568 Group: =SB= Emperor Member #1 Joined: April 8, 2006 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Playstation Network ID: Doc_Of_D Game Currently Playing: Tales of Xillia	All your base are belong to I!
	Puncture the Porcupine, my fancharacter!


Cy-Fox	Dec 1 2008, 01:50 PM Post #13
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	You'll only be able to claim my base if you get a NetWare server



Lord Tora Unlimited Crusader	Dec 2 2008, 09:42 PM Post #14
【The Knight of Tigers 】 Posts: 5,462 Group: Former Monarchs Member #6,733 Joined: March 17, 2008 Gender: Male Country: Australia 3DS Friend Code: 0404-6433-6113 Steam ID: crusaderandtimothy	My page looks eerily blank... I'm not sure if that's a good thing, a bad thing or something that has absolutely no relevance whatsoever. Moving right along, I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you've managed to find the computer equivalent of DNA and can now do super-special-awesome stuff with... stuff?
	Check out my tumblr, Aggravated Anime-Adoring Australian, where I post all sorts of dumb screencaps and MS Paint edits and generally bitch and moan about stupid otaku shit. ~One third of =SB='s Legendary Australian Trio. The man who surpassed anime fandom and became the Patron Saint of GAR and Moe.~


Cy-Fox	Dec 3 2008, 11:05 AM Post #15
We are still watching Posts: 3,486 Group: =SB= Kings Member #3,975 Joined: November 29, 2007 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Steam ID: cy-fox	Mmhm, watch as I unify the world's orbital defense capabilities presses button "SKYNET Defense System now activating.." Err..where's the nearest fallout shelter?



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