Help with Catalyst 2900 XL switch

[guy.kramer]

Recently I started revision for my MCSA and decided that I would also put together a test rig to practice on, so I have baught a cabinet and then used some old bits and managed to get 3 servers together.

I decided that since I eventually want to do the CCNA exam that I would use a Cisco switch to help get used to Cisco range, so I ended up buying a second hand Catalyst 2900 XL switch.

I have recieved the switch however I want to be able to try and configure it, if not now at least in the future. However I do not have the username and password, unfortunatly they weren't blank.

I have tried using the password recovery process, however I get so far and then it stops on the following:

Switch#copy flash:config.text system:running-config

Destination filename [running-config]?

1741 bytes copied in 3.172 secs (580 bytes/sec)

Switch#

00:03:16: %SYS-5-CONFIG: Configured from by

and if I press enter it just returns to a Switch# prompt, instead of showing Sw1# as in the documentation. I have also tried the process to reset the switch back to factory settings, but the switch doesn't seem to recognise the "erase startup-config" or "write erase" commands.

Would it be worth going on to IOS 12.x as it is cutrrently on 12.1, would that also mean that there would be default usernames and password.

I would be greatfull for any help and also very keen to learn about Cisco products.

Thanks

Guy

[keeleym]

Hi Guy

Shrikar has provided the answer to question 2, however I would just add that the enable secret supersedes the enable password.

So if you had an enable password of "cisco" and an enable secret password of "ccna", when you connected to the switch and type "enable" it is the enable secret password that will required to enter privilege exec mode, NOT the enable password.

Best Regards,

Michael

[guy.kramer]

Hi Michael,

I managed to change the name of the switch which is good. But it is not showing the any users when I run the "show run" command, please see below:

DR_2924_SWITCH#show run

Building configuration...

Current configuration:

!

version 12.0

no service pad

service timestamps debug uptime

service timestamps log uptime

no service password-encryption

!

hostname DR_2924_SWITCH

!

!

!

!

!

!

!

ip subnet-zero

!

!

!

interface FastEthernet0/1

!

interface FastEthernet0/2

!

interface FastEthernet0/3

!

interface FastEthernet0/4

!

interface FastEthernet0/5

!

interface FastEthernet0/6

!

interface FastEthernet0/7

!

interface FastEthernet0/8

!

interface FastEthernet0/9

!

interface FastEthernet0/10

!

interface FastEthernet0/11

!

interface FastEthernet0/12

!

interface FastEthernet0/13

!

interface FastEthernet0/14

!

interface FastEthernet0/15

!

interface FastEthernet0/16

!

interface FastEthernet0/17

!

interface FastEthernet0/18

!

interface FastEthernet0/19

!

interface FastEthernet0/20

!

interface FastEthernet0/21

!

interface FastEthernet0/22

!

interface FastEthernet0/23

!

interface FastEthernet0/24

!

interface VLAN1

no ip directed-broadcast

no ip route-cache

!

!

line con 0

transport input none

stopbits 1

line vty 5 15

!

end

Thanks for the help

[Hieu Cao]

You need to get into the priviledge mode first before you can create a local user.

router#config t

router(config)#username .... ...

HTH

hieu