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fmac is a tool for Windows 2000/XP which is able to change the MAC (Media Access Control) address of a network connection.
WLAN-Tools are a collection of utilities which allow certain Windows XP SP2 WLAN configuration jobs to be done by command line.
partutils are a small set of utility programs in the area of operations on hard disk partitions, partition tables and drive letter mappings by command line.

Download - fmac

Download - WLAN-Tools

WLAN-Tools v0.0.20060913

Download - partutils

partutils v0.0.20060729-win32 (binaries of Windows utilities: mount2, unhide and delMountedDevices)
partutils-v0.0.20060729-linux (binaries of Linux utilities: ntfsfixboot)
partutils v0.0.20060729-src (source code for all utilities)

About - WLAN-Tools

At the moment the collection consist of three utility programs:

1.	EAPOLconf	modifies the EAPOL configuration for specified NIC
2.	pfximport	imports PFX files (PKCS#12) into a certificate store
3.	wpscp	adds a new wireless profile to the list of preferred WLANs

All three of them try to be command line versions of what you can do in certain Windows GUI dialogs, too. Furthermore, if you have got a Windows server with Active Directory etc. you might be able to do the same things with Group Policies, too. So, if you don't have any Active Directory server, but some Windows XP SP2 workstations, where you would like to fullfil the above mentioned purposes by command line or batch script, WLAN-Tools might be the right solution.

I wrote these tools to be able to ...

add a wireless profile
import a machine certificate into the local computer's certificate store
and modify the EAPOL/EAP-TLS configuration to trust any server certificates issued by my CA

... after sysprep's Mini-Setup finishes. Because sysprep changes the SID any wireless LAN configuration is lost. With these tools I can (re)create the configuration I want all my machines to have. Therefore you have to use sysprep's capability to call a "batch" file which has to be located here: c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\cmdlines.txt . See sysprep's documentation for more information how to use cmdlines.txt .

About - partutils

At the moment the collection consist of three utility programs for Windows:

1.	mount2*	UNIX-like mount tool for Windows using Linux device names
2.	unhide	command line tool to "unhide" hidden FAT/NTFS partitions
3.	delMountedDevices	delete registry key HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

and one for Linux:

ntfsfixboot

check and fix details in NTFS boot sectors

* mount2 is derived from Matt Wu's great mount.exe (see http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/)

All four fulfill very different purposes, but have in common, that a small job can be done by command line/in a batch file/shell script without user intervention. Have a look at the readme files for more details.

I initally wrote the three utilities for Windows to be able to ...

make an additional "partition to drive letter" mapping (= "mount" a partition) with Linux-like device names in Windows (extension of Matt Wu's mount.exe).
revert a "hidden" NTFS partition back to normal
make Windows redo all "partition to driver letter" mappings on next reboot

... after sysprep's Mini-Setup finishes. I use them together with sysprep's capability to call a "batch" file which has to be located here: c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\cmdlines.txt . See sysprep's documentation for more information how to use cmdlines.txt .

The only and first utilitiy for Linux ;-) on this page fullfills the purpose of ...

fixing two fields of NTFS partition's boot sectors ("Hidden Sectors" and "Number of Heads"), e.g. after restoring a Windows system partition in another location/computer with ntfsclone (8)

03/09/07 - Joachim Foerster <JOFT@gmx.de>