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(@Anonymous)
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Hello,

I've just installed The Sleugh Kit and Autopsy following this guide sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/docs/lucas_cygwin.pdf

When I start autopsy using cygwin using "./autopsy" and go to a web browser (FF) and enter "http//localhost9999/autopsy" I get a failed to connect error. I've tried with my firewall disabled.

Anyone got any ideas why?

Many thanks!


   
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(@hinchy)
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Have you tried setting FF to "Work Offline"?


   
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(@Anonymous)
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Thanks for the response. I've just tried it and its still not working. Do you have to do something to activate TSK?


   
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(@mialta)
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Do you use a proxy ?

Have you tried telneting to the port ?


   
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(@mialta)
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another idea download tcpview from systernals and see if it is listening


   
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(@itagent2000)
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check if a ping to 127.0.0.1 is possible, this is the local machine. If this ping is not possible, the error is in your network. Good luck Chris


   
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I can see it listening on port 9999 in tcpview. I don't use a proxy either.

In the path in environmental variables I had it set to C\cygwin\usr\local\bin

That been the location of the TSK .exe files.

Edit Pinged ok.

I just reconfigured autopsy and it found version 3.0.1 of tsk. Also I have vmware server installed. I tried killing that in task manager which didn't work either.


   
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(@unknown)
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May want to try the mailing list. Brian seems to be very responsive to such problems.

To troubleshoot

1. Ping localhost (also check your hosts file for strange entries http//support.microsoft.com/kb/105997 )
Do you get a response?

2. telnet localhost 9999
(possibly try running on a different port)
Do you get a banner or a failure to connect?
Have you tried switching to a different port? (http//www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/man/autopsy.html)

obtw…what browser are you using? (version)

Hope that helps you troubleshooting the problem. (Also, I'd validate the expected process is running on that port)


   
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Sorry for the slow response. I have exams at the moment.

I've got Penguin Sleuth Kit in VMware which seems to work apart from I can't connect my external USB drive. At first I got an error proclaiming I had to upgrade the virtual machine for high speed support. I'm using the latest version of vmware. Under VM the update vm selection is grayed out.

I found that adding ehci.present = "true" to the vmx file prevents the error.

Where does one locate the drive in Knoppix? I think automatic mounting is disabled. Still I'm not very familiar with Knoppix.

Many thanks.


   
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…Where does one locate the drive in Knoppix? I think automatic mounting is disabled. Still I'm not very familiar with Knoppix.

Many thanks.

Are you running the Knoppix ISO in vmware or did you do an install to a vmware container? There may be some other issues in 'handing off' the USB drive to the virtual machine.

As I recall PSK doesn't auto mount by design, you will need to set up a mount point and then use the 'mount' command with -r to make it read only (if that is what you want). I am not sure if you are new to linux so -

mkdir /mnt/your mount point

mount -t (insert the file system type here) -r /dev/sd* /mnt/your mount point

sd* refers to the partition to mount so if the USB drive is sda with one partition you would input sda1

This gives you a read only mount on the USB partition.


   
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