File Host Mirroring Sites

There is no doubt that the RapidShare is the king of all file hosting services. Other sites like Megaupload, Zshare, MiHD, Sendspace etc are also popular.
The problem arises when the uploaded file gets deleted due to Inactivity and retention rules or when somebody reports that the file is violating intellectual rights. Every file hoster has similar retention limits. Some have 60 days some has 15 days some has 45 days and so on. The solution for the deletion due to inactivity is to Upload the file to few of them (taking advantage of different retention limits) but it takes time and bandwidth. So here comes the role of file host mirroring sites. All you have to do is to go to any of the following sites choose the hosts where do you want to mirror your file and upload your file and done! Uploaded to single place available from Multiple Places! With no extra time and bandwidth wastage.

Here is a list of Popular File Host Mirroring Sites-

http://www.ftp2share.com
http://www.ezwebshare.com/
http://www.xirror.com/
http://www.massmirror.com/
http://www.shareonall.com/
http://www.fileducky.com/
http://www.xlspread.com/
http://www.xlice.net/


All of the above offers different file host mirrors for example ftp2share.com offers mirroring to www.megaupload.com, ww.filefactory.com, www.depositfiles.com & www.rapidshare.com. It also accepts upload through FTP.

One of the cool feature of these sites is you can link your rapidshare Premium account to these services for ex. If you have linked your rapidshare Premium/Collector account with ftp2share and than uploaded to it than the file will be available inside your Rapidshare account. They also offer linking to other Hosts like Depositfiles, Megaupload, Filefactory etc. Every site has mix of features than the other. You have to explore the sites to find out what they offer.

Please post your comment if you come across a site which is not in the above list so that I can include it.

Accessing Host OS from Guest OS in Virtual box

Accessing Host OS from Virtual Box requires enabling few settings in Virtual Box.
Here is the step-by-step sceenshots of settings used to for Host & Guest communication.

I have used Windows Server 2003 as a Host and Guest. 

Open Virtual Box and select the GuestOS and click Network.



Click the add button and click ok.



Virtual Box now Installs Virtual LAN Adapter Click Continue anyway.

An entry will appear in Host Interfaces Box. After that click Enable Network Adapter and select Host Interface from Attached to dropdown and finally check cable connected.


Now the Setting the options in Virtual Box is done. We need to assign ip addresses to both Host and Guest OS.
So in the host os right click the virtual box host interface found in Network Connection folder and select the properties.



Now assign ip address which can be any private ip address range and assign subnet mask.


Now start you Guest OS in Virtual box and enter its Network connections folder and right click the Virtual Box host interface and select properties. Now
select TCP/IP properties and assign ip address and subnet mask for the Guest OS.



Now open command prompt inside the Guest Os and ping the Host Os by entering the ip address you just assigned to host os. If you receive the success replies the connection is successful and now your host and guest os are connected as if they are in LAN.

Now lets access the host file system from inside the guest os. Open the run dialog in guest os and enter the host ip address followed by Administrative Share e.g. \\10.0.0.1\C$ and press enter.



Windows Authentication Box will appear. Enter your administrative credentials and press enter. Pls note if you want to access the administrative shares in the host os simple file sharing must be disabled from folder options.


A window will open displaying the contents of a C: drive of Host OS.


If you have any problems leave a comment.

Here is a link to download all the above screenshots in Zipped file.
http://rapidshare.com/files/112180909/Accessing_Host_from_guest_in_virtual_box.zip

Windows Command line tools: Wipe your free space using Cipher

Little Description-

File table contains reference to the location of file on disk like a book’s index contains the page numbers of chapters in the book. When the file is deleted from computer recycle bin it is not fully removed from hdd only its entry in the file system table is deleted. So it is possible to recover the deleted data by using File Recovery Softwares. Wiping free hard disk space means to permanently erase the deleted file data so it is not recoverable using Recovery Softwares.

There are thousands of free space Wiping utilities out there on the internet. So if your Company Policies prohibit installing the 3rd party file wiping softwares or you are in urgent need of wiping utility and do not have access to internet you can use the in-built command in Xp/2003 called Cipher.

Cipher is mainly used for Encrypting/Decrypting the files but it also contains a “/w” switch to wipe the free space. Here’s the syntax-

Cipher /w:DrivetoWipe
e.g. Cipher /W:C

Official Description of /w Switch – “Removes data from available unused disk space on the entire volume. If this option is chosen, all other options are ignored. The directory specified can be anywhere in a local volume. If it is a mount point or points to a directory in another volume, the data on that volume will be removed.”

Cipher /w wipes the free space by writing the junk data in three steps- Writing Zeroes, Ones and Random Numbers.

Three steps wiping Screenshot-

Windows Command Line Device Manager- Devcon.exe

Although there is GUI Device Manager for managing devices on a Windows Machine, for command line aficionados there is Devcon.exe from Microsoft. It can do tasks like –

• Disabling/Enabling the device
• Lists driver files installed for devices
• Lists all device setup classes (types like usb, display, mouse, biometric devices etc)
• Finds a device by instance id
• find hidden devices
• Lists hardware Ids
• Manually install a device
• Scan for new hardware
• Remove a device
• Restart a device
• Lists the status of device
• Updates device Drivers of a Device etc
• Display the Devices in a Remote Machine, its status etc.

For more info type “devcon /?” & individual Switch help like “devcon help findall”.
It can be lot useful for System Administrators in scripting common tasks like disabling and re - enabling the Network Card, Restarting a device, Updating Device Drivers, Generating lists of devices installed and their status in Local Machine and also in Remote machines.

It may also display (I am not sure) hidden Rootkit Driver Installed in a file system but may not be visible after turning on the Device Manager hidden option.

I use it to fix my ADSL Connection because sometimes it gets disconnected and doesn’t reconnect without disabling/enabling the NIC.

Microsoft has both x86 & x64 versions. Download it from Microsoft – here

Screenshot Displaying List of Features/Switches-