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The company I work for has been implementing thin client technologies based on Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services for a long time.  Today, VMWare’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is starting to be the hot item.  This post addresses the network concerns presented by thin client technologies.  My first experience with this issue was presented by a small branch employee playing ‘Wheel of Fortune’ online.  The network died every time it was her turn to spin the wheel.

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While poking around the new GNS3.net forum, I found two very interesting howto posts. Jeremy Grossman (gns3 author) describes the processes needed to bridge a wireless NIC to GNS3 using both Linux and Windows.

Here are the links:

Bridge with a Wireless NIC on Linux

Bridge with a Wireless NIC on Windows
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In a previous tutorial, I showed you how to create a vmware session with easyvmx and vmware player. This time, I will show you how to take this one step further … installing vmware tools. VMware tools enhances the vmware experience with better graphics and device support. VMware player does not come with the tools.

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When using dynagen and dynamips, the application used for console access is normally basic telnet. Personally, I do not like the windows telnet application at all. It does not allow logging or the ability to maximize the window.

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PEMU is a Cisco Pix Firewall Emulator based on QEMU open source machine emulator and virtualizer. The original author of the Linux version is known as ‘mmm123′ on the hacki forum . Now, the amazing PEMU software has been ported to windows by a different user on the hacki forum known as ‘melifaro’. 

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The Cisco IOS configuration archive is intended to provide a mechanism to store, organize, and manage an archive of Cisco IOS configuration files in order to enhance the configuration rollback capability provided by the configure replace command. – Cisco.com This tutorial also demonstrates installing an ftp server on Windows 2000/XP/2003.

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EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web. You can install any Windows, Linux, BSD or Solaris, and test LiveCDs in a safe environment. – easyvmx.com

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This tutorial will show you how to install and configure openssh on a windows box. Uses for an ssh server on a windows machine include secure file copies and secure browsing.

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References:

http://digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows

If using OpenSSH for SCP or SFTP, you will need to prefix paths with /cygdrive/

Example: c:\backup = /cygdrive/c/backup

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This document will give you the bare minimum to provide RADIUS authentication to your Cisco Devices using Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) RADIUS server. Using RADIUS on your Microsoft server to authenticate Cisco devices allows you to use the same usernames and passwords on your Windows servers and Cisco devices. (more…)