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Share Truecrypt volume on Windows with volume mount point

Zen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:38:21 +0000

I keep all my sensitive documents encrypted in Truecrypt volumes (don’t you?). But I ran into a problem when I wanted to share a Truecrypt volume across my home network. I had to setup the share every time I mounted the volume.

Then it hit me; my flaw was that I was trying to set up a share within the Truecrypt volume. I needed to set up a share and then mount the TC volume inside that share. But you can’t mount a Truecrypt volume to a directory. Humm….

Enter Hardlink Shell Extension. HSE will let you create Volume Mount Points in Windows. That will let you “map complete local volumes onto arbitrary disk locations”. So you can create a VMP (as a folder) and point it at the drive letter of your TC volume. That way whenever you mount the TC volume to that drive letter, it will already be shared.

After installing the HSE, Mount your TC volume, right-click, and select “Pick Link Source”

Now go to the drive you are going to set up your shared folder and right click. Then select “Drop As…” and “Volume Mountpoint”.

Now just share the resulting folder.

When you mount the TC volume (or any TC volume for that matter) to the drive letter you selected as your “Link Source” it will be shared.

–Zen

Script to Install Macromedia Contribute Key

Zen — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:51:54 +0000

I never could find a good script to check to see if a Macromedia Contribute key had been installed for a user on a machine, and if not then to run the key. So I made one. This one is for Contribute 2, but I think it will work with 3 (if you change the Site folder to 3). And it assumes that the user will only be running one Site. I make the Contribute Icon/Shortcut point to this script.

You will need to change “h:\key.stc” to the location of your key. You will need to save the following script as a .vbs

Set objFSO = CreateObject(”Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(”WScript.Network”)
strUserName = objNetwork.UserName
If objFSO.FileExists(”C:\Documents and Settings\” & strUserName & “\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Contribute 2\Sites\Site1\_mm\contribute.xml”) Then
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject (”WSCript.shell”)
wshshell.run “”"C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Contribute 2\Contribute.exe”"”, 6, True
set wshshell = nothing
Wscript.Quit
Else
Wscript.Echo “Your Contribute Key needs to be installed on this computer. Click OK to begin.”
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject (”WSCript.shell”)
wshshell.run “h:\key.stc”, 6, True
set wshshell = nothing
End If

References:
1) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jun05/hey0620.mspx
2) http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2004/03/14/89240.aspx
3) http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/Logon_HomeDirAdv.htm

Bought a New computer with Office 2007? Need the Disks?

Zen — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:23:27 +0000

http://www.microsoft.com/office/backup/en-us/default.mspx

How to run Windows in Ubuntu

Zen — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:10:54 +0000

if you really want to: Here’s How

MS Project alternative – Gnatt

Zen — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:10:14 +0000

Gnatt

Free Site Link Checker

Zen — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:43:01 +0000

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

How to use VMware Player to create your own images

Zen — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:45:58 +0000

Here is a website for easy vmx creation: http://www.easyvmx.com/

Two great resources for instructions on how to Create VMware images:

Newsforge

Linux Docs

Split directories up to Span CD/DVD

Zen — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:20:53 +0000

I just came across a great utility to split up large folders so that they may be burned to several cd’s or dvd’s.

It uses Hard Links, so it will create perfectly sized folders without acutally copying or modifying the data that is to be burned.

Check it out

Directions here: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Etbl&tag=

File Download here: http://www.oboguev.net/scratch/HardLink.zip

Error: “LU1803: LiveUpdate failed while getting your updates” or “LiveUpdate had an internal error while getting your updates”

Zen — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:19:55 +0000

Error: “LU1803: LiveUpdate failed while getting your updates” or “LiveUpdate had an internal error while getting your updates”

Finally found a fix for this that works!

Go to the Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec

Delete the whole LiveUpdate directory
Go into Commone Client and delete all the files you can (there may be one that says it can’t be deleted because it is in use)

Now run LiveUpdate

This should fix the problems