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hw07-windows-VM-login
hw07: connection instructions
VMSphere to a Windows-VM-server

For hw07, you and your teammates (up to 3 on a team) will harden a Windows machine which starts off with several security flaws. The initially-weak machine won't be a lab machine or your own laptop; we will provide you with a virtual machine to connect to.

You can only work on this homework

1. from the campus network,
and
2. from a Windows machine (one which runs VMSphere).

1. Get the VM simulator.
   1. From your personal computer on campus:
      1. Goto http://137.45.192.187
      2. Download vSphere Client
   2. From any University Lab machine
      1. Goto http://labs.vmware.com/flings/thinapp-vsphere
      2. Download Thinapped vSphere Client.
         Be sure to download version 4.1 (not v5.0), via the pull-down menu in the upper-left.
      3. You can even store this on a USB key.
2. Start up the vSphere client or the Thinapped vSphere Client from Step 1 above. Enter the following information:
   • IPaddress/Name: Enter the IP address 137.45.192.187
   • User name: teamZZ, where ZZ is the number of your team — check your team number from the table at the end of this instructions.
   • Password: Enter security1# (which is self-evidently a highly secure password).
3. Click Login.

   When you click Login, you might see the following message:

   If you are using the Thinappd client, you will see a screen that contains an icon “Inventory”; Click that.

   You should now be looking at a screen with the ever-so-friendly message:

4. In the left-side menu, click on the “+” button next to the IP address on the left side menu.
5. You will see a workstation designed for each member of your team; choose any one of them. E.g. if you and your teammates are assigned team05, team16, team27, then you could use team27-WinXP.
6. Select that workstation, and from the top menu click on the “green” play button to launch that particular virtual image.
7. Click on the “Console” tab (second-from-right; see below)

8. The first time you login, you may see a Virtual Machine Question as shown below. Select “I copied it” and press OK. Don’t worry, I won’t report you to the Honors council for this candid admission.
9. If you notice a Windows-System Error (“A duplicate name exists on the network”), ignore it (by pressing OK).
   Similarly, we'll ignore any message about the trial version of “GoodTech Telnet Server has expired”.
10. Your workstation will appear on the console in a few minutes.

    The console tab is kinda small (already embedded in a pane which is embedded in a window). I suggest you pull the console into its own window, as follows:
    Near the (above your team/machine-name, and below the green "play" button), you'll see an icon of a terminal with a tiny green arrow ("Launch Virtual Machine Console").

11. For the project, login in to the Windows VM using the account “Security Student”. (It has no password. Note that during the homework, you will disable accounts w/o passwords!¹)

FAQ

• Q: The ThinAppedclient is requiring Administrative privileges, which I don’t have.
  A: Read step 3.
• Q: I get error saying that it cannot connect to the host.
  A: Are you off-campus? If so, please login at webvpn.radford.edu first. If not, send me the exact error message by email.
• Q: I don’t see the green play button, or it is greyed out and doesn’t allow me to start.
  A: Most likely, you have already started it. Click on the console tab (proceed from step 7).

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