Creating a VPN connection in Windows XP Step By Step

In the last couple of decades, the world has completely changed due to the growing businesses and market. Now, instead of targeting local regions people have started thinking globally. Many businesses have expanded their business and spread out their branches across the world and the only thing they need is the way to maintain secure, reliable and fast communication with their branches wherever they are.

The VPN provides you the exact facility to get the best secure and reliable connection via which you are able to remotely login to the server. It is also an alternative to the expensive dedicated private connection. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a type of computer network which is created using public wires to connect nodes which allows you to secure your network via security and encryption policies. PPTP and L2TP are the two protocols used by microsoft to create Virtual private network.

How to configure a VPN connection step by step  in Windows XP?

Things required to Set up a VPN Connection:

  • Computer running Microsoft Windows XP
  • IP address or Host name of a VPN remote access server

Steps to set up a VPN Connection:

1) Open the ‘Windows Control Panel’.

2) Open the ‘Network Connections’ item in ‘Control Panel’. A list of existing dial-up and LAN connections will appear.

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3) Choose the ‘Create a new connection’ item from the left-hand side of the window. The Windows XP New Connection Wizard will appear on the screen.
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4) First click Next to begin the wizard, then choose the ‘Connect to the network at my workplace’ item from the list and click Next.
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5) On the Network Connection page of the wizard, choose the ‘Virtual Private Network connection’ option and click Next.
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6) Insert a desired name for the new VPN connection in the field ‘Company Name’ and simply click Next. The name chosen need not match the name of an actual business.
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7) Select an option on the ‘Public Network’ screen and again click Next. The default option, ‘Automatically dial this initial connection’ can be used if the VPN connection will always be initiated when the computer is not already connected to the Internet. Or else, choose the ‘Do not dial the initial connection’ option. This option requires that the public Internet connection be established first, before this new VPN connection will be initiated.
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8). Insert the name or IP address of the VPN remote access server to connect to, and click Next. Company network administrators will provide this information.
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9) Choose an option on the “Connection Availability” screen and click Next. The default option, ‘My Use Only,’ ensures that Windows will make this new connection available only to the currently logged on user. Otherwise, choose the ‘Anyone’s use’ option.
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10) Click Finish to complete the wizard.

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Your new VPN connection information has been successfully saved.

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How to Receive Email Alerts on Root SSH Login?

How would you know if someone logs into your server as root? It is very necessary to keep a track of who logs into your server as a root, especially when your are dealing with the super user account. In this article you will get to know how to receive email alerts on Root SSH Login when someone logs into your server. 

Below are the steps you must follow:

1. Login to your server and su to root, I know the irony!

2. cd /root

3. pico .bashrc

4. Scroll to the end of the file then add the following:
echo ‘ALERT – Root Shell Access (YourserverName) on:’ `date` `who` | mail -s “Alert: Root Access from `who | cut -d’(’ -f2 | cut -d’)’ -f1`” you@yourdomain.com

Replace YourServerName with the handle for your actual server
Replace you@yourdomain.com with your actual email address

5. Crtl + X then Y 

Now logout of SSH, close the connection and log back in! You should receive an email address of the root login alert a within a few minutes. 

This is an awesome tool for servers which are having multiple admins or if you give someone SSH access for whatever reason, although you should give out the root password to as few people as possible and be sure to change it often. 

May be sometime you will not receive any alert as because if hacker runs the lastest kernel exploit on your server and logs into SSH and creates their own SSH/telnet connection. To avoid such things you should keep your system up-to-date by installing a firewall and the latest security releases.

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Steps to Install Zend Optimizer on a Linux Server

Below are the steps to install Zend Optimizer on a Linux server :

To install Zend on linux server you are going to need these two things.

* SSH Access
* Root password

Select the appropriate file for Zend installation from

– http://www.zend.com/store/free_download.php?pid=13
Linux users should download the Linux glibc2.1

* upload it with ftp to your server on which you want to install ZEND.

* Extract the file contains

– tar -zvfx ZendOptimizer*.tar.gz

* You will get a directory, go to that directory as

– cd ZendOptimizer-2.5.3-linux-glibc21-i386/

* Now run the installer,

– ./install.sh

* You will get a welcome screen say OK.

* You will have to say OK for agreement.

* It will ask you the path for installation of zend. Please mention directory on which you want to install zend on your server say /usr/local/zend

* It will next locate php.ini file on the server, say OK.

* Next it will ask you that “Are you using Apache Web Server? Say yes.

* Enter the locate for apache web files say /usr/local/apache/bin

* Now Zend will change location of your php.ini file. Please make a note or you can locate your php.ini file after installation with the command

– php -i | grep php.ini

* It will give you the screen to restart the Web Server for the changes to effect.

* After restarting httpd service on your server, You can check the installation with the command called php -v You will get the output as

* After installation you can remove installation directory as

–rm –rf ZendOptimizer-2.5.3-linux-glibc21-i386

Now you have succesfully installed the Zend Optimizer on your Linux Server.

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This post was written by admin on September 3, 2009

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Solving DNS Cache Issue using Commands on Different OS

The most and common issue that web developer and technician faces is the DNS cache problem. Using the following commands you can easily clear the cache from your local machine according to your operating systems.

1) For Windows OS

- Start -> Run -> type cmd
-In command prompt, type

ipconfig /flushdns

2) For Linux OS

- To restart the nscd daemon, type

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart in your terminal

3) For Mac OS X

- type lookupd -flushcache in your terminal to flush the DNS resolver cache.
ex: bash-2.05a$ lookupd -flushcache

4) For Vista OS

Simple steps to fix the corrupted DNS cache in Vista Operating System.

1. Click the Microsoft Vista Start logo in the bottom left corner of the screen
2. Click All Programs
3. Click Accessories
4. RIGHT-click on Command Prompt
5. Select Run As Administrator
6. In the command window type the following and then hit enter:

ipconfig /flushdns

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Adult web site hosting

Adult web site hosting is a lucrative trade in online business, however many web hosting companies does not support adult hosting content in their packages and often already mention in their terms of services about non acceptance of adult content. On the other hand there are still group of web hosting companies which back up the much- litigious adult hosting content.

Though Adult hosting content does stimulate visitors you may face legal risk and your business will be more prone to online fraud especially if you are dealing with some adult stuff.   Also many online users consider adult business as a cultural taboo and most of the time the user can not freely browse these sites in open environment.

While choosing the adult hosting be smart in choosing the plan as it may become the most difficult aspect of your adult site since it require extra space on the server and high badwidth, additional memory as well as your hosting plan should provide secured features so that you can efficiently manage your adult website.  No doubt, you will need full power, control and flexibility and 24×7 technical support so best if you have own web server to power your adult website business,  therefore it would be highly recommended that you should go for dedicated server hosting.

If you’re really interested in adult business, be sure to follow the legal requirement strictly and as far as possible only load legal content. To find a high-quality hosting for adult content is far too limited, however if you have legal content and you are supposed to do business lawfully you can get good hosting company easily.

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This post was written by admin on September 1, 2009