Hacker’s Diary

To prevent certain files from appearing in directory indexes, in case this needs to remain enabled. This is particularly useful for non html files (or raw files not parsed by apache and returned as a html to the browser), for example: php include files, libraries (that will not have the extension php), or log files, or any other file that you might want to prevent the users to easily see in the browser.

Use the apache directive IndexIgnore to hide the list of files:

IndexIgnore .htaccess
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t
IndexIgnore *.inc

The quick fix to this Samba Vista issue is to switch Windows Vista LAN authentication level.

Instructions below:

1. Open the Run command and type “secpol.msc”.
2. Press “continue” when prompted by Vista.
3. Click on “Local Policies” –> “Security Options”
4. Navigate to the policy “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level” and open it.
5. By default Windows Vista sets the policy to “NTVLM2 responses only”. Change this to “LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated”.