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Yup, our new school network ppl are officially not-very-good.
Yesterday, I found a new shortcut on the desktop. Naturally, I had a look at it - first I just ran it, and it tried to make me install Quicktime. So I started it doing that and went to have a look where it was pointing to, and found a new computer on the network, named LaCie_NWbox (might not have got the capitalisation quite right there). As it didn't show up under Network Neighbourhood I thought it might be worth looking at, so find-shortcutted to it. It contained three shared folders (which I thought were prolly drives) - one of them had the program the shortcut was to on it (LoTR movie-cash-in 'educational' software - I had a play with it later, but the utter pantsness of the 'colour in the characters' exercise that wouldn't even fill areas right disgusted me so I gave up), one of them had the Encarta CD in, and one of them had an info CD about the computer itself. Turns out it's a network server with a LCD display and web-interface admin tool, which serves CD images (which it, according to the documentation, it stores on it's massive 60MB HD - I'm *hoping* they mean GB). Read through some of the docs, and found the bit where it talked about the web interface and the default admin password. So I thought 'well, why not?' and pasted the network address into IE. At first it wasn't having any of it, but when I entered just the computer name it came up with the page it said it would. So I told it to give me the admin controls, typed in the defaults, and hey presto, one web interface for adminning our LaCie Network Box...
If I'd've wanted to, I could've - deleted everything on the box; changed the Administrator password so no-one could get in (and this *means* no-one, the highly limited LCD interface means no sorting it out from console, they'd prolly have to send it off to be wiped); shut down the box; renamed it so nothing could find it; deleted the 'guest' account so nothing could use it until restored; and prolly all kinds of other nasty things I didn't poke far enough to find out.
What I *did* is leave a calling card (in the form of a new admin-privs user, which will show up in the logs if they ever bother with them...), thinking I'd check back in a week or so to see if it's fixed.
After that, I'll bring it to their attention and see if they need any help setting such things up properly :-)
Yesterday, I found a new shortcut on the desktop. Naturally, I had a look at it - first I just ran it, and it tried to make me install Quicktime. So I started it doing that and went to have a look where it was pointing to, and found a new computer on the network, named LaCie_NWbox (might not have got the capitalisation quite right there). As it didn't show up under Network Neighbourhood I thought it might be worth looking at, so find-shortcutted to it. It contained three shared folders (which I thought were prolly drives) - one of them had the program the shortcut was to on it (LoTR movie-cash-in 'educational' software - I had a play with it later, but the utter pantsness of the 'colour in the characters' exercise that wouldn't even fill areas right disgusted me so I gave up), one of them had the Encarta CD in, and one of them had an info CD about the computer itself. Turns out it's a network server with a LCD display and web-interface admin tool, which serves CD images (which it, according to the documentation, it stores on it's massive 60MB HD - I'm *hoping* they mean GB). Read through some of the docs, and found the bit where it talked about the web interface and the default admin password. So I thought 'well, why not?' and pasted the network address into IE. At first it wasn't having any of it, but when I entered just the computer name it came up with the page it said it would. So I told it to give me the admin controls, typed in the defaults, and hey presto, one web interface for adminning our LaCie Network Box...
If I'd've wanted to, I could've - deleted everything on the box; changed the Administrator password so no-one could get in (and this *means* no-one, the highly limited LCD interface means no sorting it out from console, they'd prolly have to send it off to be wiped); shut down the box; renamed it so nothing could find it; deleted the 'guest' account so nothing could use it until restored; and prolly all kinds of other nasty things I didn't poke far enough to find out.
What I *did* is leave a calling card (in the form of a new admin-privs user, which will show up in the logs if they ever bother with them...), thinking I'd check back in a week or so to see if it's fixed.
After that, I'll bring it to their attention and see if they need any help setting such things up properly :-)
