Hijack questions & yes, I've already tried the FAQ

I've got a few questions about Hijack that I couldn't find in the FAQ. I'm running 2.0-b11 and v199 of Hijack

1. I know that Hijack is up to v 232. To upgrade, do I have to remove the old one or anything?

2. I can connect to my RioCar with IE by going to http://riocarIP. I've only looked at the playlists because I don't know much about the rest of the files. I can play my songs and playlist fine but I can't stream. What software do I need on my desktop to be able to stream audio? Also, can the player stream one song while playing another?

3. How secure is it while it's on the network? I know it has an ftp server as well but can anyone mess up the files? When I connected to it via FTP, I used an anonymous connection and I couldn't write any files. Do I need to worry about an administrator or root password? I'd like to be able to give some coworkers the IP so they can listen to music from it but I don't trust them if it's vulnerble.

Thanks for your help.

1. no

2. all you need is winamp or something along those lines to stream.

3. its not secure. anyone can get in and mess around with your player. You could perhaps change the ports on the ftp server and http servers to keep people out, or you can set a password with a config.ini option.

Sean

Thanks. In reguard to #2, I had real player associated to the streams and it choked. Then I installed WinAmp and it worked fine until Real player poped up and said someone has changed your file associations and I'm changeing them back. Now it broke again. I hate Real! Now I have to fix the associations again.

How do I do #3?

After you fix the associations to Winamp, remember to kindly remind Real to not ever again regain it!

I hate when programs do that too. Esp. when they don't prompt first.

the password options are covered in the faq. I think its kftpd pass= something though.

http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=11&categories=Hijack+Kernel+Questions#182

For security, I recommend that everybody on a vulnerable LAN (pretty much anything where others have access) use the following config.ini settings with Hijack:

[hijack]

;@WORK disable_emplode=1

;@WORK kftpd_password=N0h4cK3rz

;@WORK khttpd_files=0

;@WORK khttpd_commands=0

In addition, if you want a static IP at home, and dynamic IP at work, use something similar to the following:

[Network]

Gateway=10.0.0.1

Netmask=255.0.0.0

IPAddress=10.0.0.8

;@WORK DHCP=1

;@HOME DHCP=0

DHCP=0

Once you place these lines (either or both sets) into config.ini and reboot the player, the Hijack menu will have a Home/Work Location menu item, which allows selecting which group of settings to use (the default is ;@HOME).

The above stuff should probably be copied into the FAQ..

Cheers