Dude580
2008-11-06, 01:32
Hey I recently was looking around at my family's old computer parts Inventory and I have been able to re-build a old p3 machine . I have been playing around with computers since I was a kid ( mostly building and repairing ) . I took a programing class in high school but I found it pretty dull and pretty easy , but note all i was allowed to make had to be according to the course outline . Ive started reading about networking and stuff and was thinking of building a network not attached to the internet at all just to play around with .
Ill admit I have been doing a bit of kiddie scripting using backtrack and messing around with wifi networks and whatnot , but reading more and more into things so I truly understand what is being done by the individual programs I am using .
So my thoughts so far for my network set up is getting a wireless router ( probably a wrt54g , and flashing the firmware ) maybe add and directly connect it to the old p3 machine , i also have a old standard router that is a dlink something i could throw into the mix some how . For OS i thought i would install windows xp at first on the old computer .
As lame as it sounds I want to know how to do stuff like once im in the network how can I "backup " files onto my own machine if the computer has a password to connect to it individually .
Ill admit im a noob with this stuff but i am willing to learn , I am handy with the hardware setup of computers mostly , its the cracking of security that im trying to understand better so any advice on my offline network setup or good books to read would be awesome.
TL/DL : I am a noob and im setting up a network that I own that I can use to learn about network security and how it can be overcome .
Ill admit I have been doing a bit of kiddie scripting using backtrack and messing around with wifi networks and whatnot , but reading more and more into things so I truly understand what is being done by the individual programs I am using .
So my thoughts so far for my network set up is getting a wireless router ( probably a wrt54g , and flashing the firmware ) maybe add and directly connect it to the old p3 machine , i also have a old standard router that is a dlink something i could throw into the mix some how . For OS i thought i would install windows xp at first on the old computer .
As lame as it sounds I want to know how to do stuff like once im in the network how can I "backup " files onto my own machine if the computer has a password to connect to it individually .
Ill admit im a noob with this stuff but i am willing to learn , I am handy with the hardware setup of computers mostly , its the cracking of security that im trying to understand better so any advice on my offline network setup or good books to read would be awesome.
TL/DL : I am a noob and im setting up a network that I own that I can use to learn about network security and how it can be overcome .