Facebook – Login Error – An unexpected error occurred

Posted on by treaclepumpkin

Having the above error? Getting the same thing on your phone, Firefox, Edge or Chrome desktop browsers? Tried the web and that suggests deleting your cache, deleting the app but still you get the error?
Do you have one machine that still can log into Facebook? If you do then go and turn off, I know this is unsafe, 2FA (In my case my mobile and email systems). Now, no need to clear your cache, just log in as normal and job done!
You can now turn 2FA back on. What’s the point of 2FA if you have to turn if off to log in? No idea! I received two SMS messages, while 2FA was on, but no opportunity to enter any of the codes received.
Maybe this was all just a “glitch” on the day and will go away tomorrow.

Logging “Audit Success” in Windows Logs

Posted on by treaclepumpkin

I noticed, while reviewing my logs, that I still get masses of “Audit Success” entries in the Security logs. What I mean is 30+ entries every second, seems an insane number to me, even more so as they were all the 4799 event. I mean so a membership was successfully enumerated? Okay move on, but these entries were now in the tens of thousands.

Much hunting round and I found that since Windows 7, I think, logging of successful events is now on by default. So unless you find the process/Service ID GUID of the services triggering the event and turning them off individually or setting them to “Failure”, which would take weeks trying to remove them you’re stuck, well unless your knowledge of audit policy commands is very good.

So welcome to this Superuser.com article, or rather question and answer, to help you out.

https://superuser.com/questions/1516725/how-to-disable-windows-10-system-log

Sneak peak is to run this command: auditpol /set /subcategory:"Filtering Platform Connection" /success:disable /failure:enable
To disable successful Credential Manager reads, another frequently logged event, use:
auditpol /set /subcategory:"Credential Validation" /success:disable /failure:enable

The longer version is to read the article and find out how to remove other event types. Either way I’m now down to four or six “Audit Success” events being logged every couple of minutes, and those 4799 events that hid a load of other information are gone now. Woohoo

Enabling WPS on a Billion BiPAC 8900AX

Posted on by treaclepumpkin

By default WPS is disabled on the 8900AX, so if you need to connect a device, TV, printer etc, using WPS then you will have to go into the Configuration menu and enable it.

  • This can be found under the Configuration->Wireless 2.4G->Security menu.
  • Select the “Enable” value for the “WPS” combo, under “WPS Setup”.
  • Ensure that the “Add Client” option is set to “Use STA PIN”.
  • Make sure that the “PIN” value is blank.
  • Leave all other options at their default settings.

Once this is done all you need to do, to connect the device using WPS, is to press the WPS button on the router, for around a second, and then perform the equivalent activity on the device you want connected.

Remote Desktop: Map a local drive on the remote host

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If you repeatedly use a Remote Desktop session and that session needs access to files on the machine you’re connecting from then you’d normally set up a network drive, possibly mapped as follows:

net use z: \\yourmachine\c$ /persistent:Yes

But, depending on how Draconian your network security is then mapping folders on user machines may actually be blocked. Strange one as this ability is mostly essential when working on a remote machine, especially if a developer. Fortunately you can map using the built in sharing of RDP. Same format as earlier just the machine name changes and effectively becomes a constant, so the mapping is now:

net use z: \\tsclient\c /persistent:Yes

And job done, until the next group policy is introduced blocking that…