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November 04, 2003
Toshiba Magnia SG20
Yet another cool piece of hardware has made its way to my test bench. This time, it's the Toshiba Magnia SG20. I would hazard a guess that Toshiba made way too many of these things, because everyone and his dog is selling them on Ebay.
What's inside? Within 15 minutes of it arriving, I had it ripped apart to see what made it tick. Very impressive. This box is ideal for a small all-in-one server application. My original intention was to use it as a captive access point for some public-access Wi-Fi hotspots that a few friends and I want to set up (as an aside, check out the software that we're thinking of using - NoCatNet). After ripping it apart, I'm thinking that it might work better as a mobile server for my truck.
I've tried doing some searching on the net for any links to people hacking this unit (there must be people hacking it - it's just so... hackable!). All I've been able to come up with is a Latvian site with some nice pictures. A bit more digging, and I found a Yahoo group.
I found one tidbit of information somewhere (I can't find the link at the moment) that mentions that 'telnetuser' and the admin password is used to telnet in to the box to get a command prompt. I'll test that theory as soon as I've put it back together!
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Posted by Ian at November 4, 2003 11:52 PM
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Did you find anything more on hacking this? I'm putting together some notes gathered from the Yahoo group and the experiences of people playing with the SG20. If you have something to add, I'll trade your notes for mine.
Best,
D
Posted by: Douglas at December 29, 2003 08:20 PM
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~hlaufman/MagniaPortForwarding.htm check out that website for instructions on forwarding ports. I can't gaurantee it's integrity or that it works since my box is running 2.2xx and I will need to image my drive first.
Posted by: headbanger at January 25, 2004 09:47 AM
them passwords ain't working for my unit and guess what mines from ebay one of the first people to buy one (prices have risen scince then)
i will post progress here if others could do the same i want to get in to telnet scripting this thing.
(+ is there other themes for the web services does anyone know ?)
Posted by: sparky at January 27, 2004 02:52 PM
Posted by: frank at February 11, 2004 08:41 AM