Questions tagged [windows]
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disk with windows is not mounting. debian 13
i use debian 13 with kde plasma and dualboot windows on 2 drives. on my nvme ssd with win11 (which is not mounting) and sata ssd with win10 (mounting without errors). this is error in dolphin: Error ...
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Wine cmd automatically escapes quotes, adds backslash
$ wine cmd /c 'echo "hello world"' \"hello world\" Where do the backslashes come from? The command behaves differently in an interactive session: $ wine cmd Microsoft Windows 6.1....
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SSH from Windows to Linux, when something is piped into it, gets stuck and stop showing STDOUT
I'm an SSH scripting novice, so I'm trying to understand whether I'm just doing it wrong or there is an issue. Background: I'm trying to connect VSCode RemoteSSH to HuggingFace Space dev mode and ...
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How to get out of the Linux/Windows dualboot setup disaster [closed]
I have a two-drive PC that originally came with Windows 11 preinstalled. As I wanted to use linux for projects/research I decided to install omarchy on the second drive. During Omarchy installation ...
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"error in libcrypto" for ssh-add with git-bash (mingw32) on Windows 11
I have a problem with SSH key usage for GIT on windows. It works fine from windows GUI git clients. From the terminal - git-bash / mingw32 - it fails with $ git pull git@<gitserver redacted>: ...
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KDE Plasma crashing in Debian Bookworm on AMD 64 Processor with Xming / XDMCP
I have been having this problem for quite some time. I am using Xming to contact my headless Debian Bookworm server via XDMCP under Windows (various versions). The login screen comes up and I can log ...
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Why can I browse this Windows share using smbclient, but cannot mount it with mount.cifs?
I am working in a primarily Windows environment. I need to access a Windows shared drive which is known among my colleagues as "the L drive". Running net use on a Windows machine shows the ...
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Samba wide links makes share inaccessible on Asustor NAS (ADM 5, Samba 4.20.0, Windows 11)
I am trying to set up a Flamenco render farm for Blender. One of the requirements is that symlinks work across Samba shares and Windows clients (Flamenco docs). According to this Unix SE answer, the ...
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SSH from Windows into Linux using Pubkey, getting Permission Denied (publickey)
I am working on getting headless Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu Server 25.04. I haven't done this in a while and... passwords are no longer a thing, which is frustrating, but understandable. I have ...
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I need to get my microphone, camera, and speaker working on a remote machine over X11
I have a strange situation that needs a strange solution. I have a Windows 7 machine that will not run a particular application. The application is web based so I would like to try using it on my ...
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Attempting to set up TIGHTVNC Server on Debian Bookworm running KDE
I am attempting to connect to my Debian Bookworm machine using TIGHTVNC on a Windows 7 machine. When I connect to the machine I get a gray screen. I downloaded Krfb, but it gives me an error when I ...
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Changes in a Samba share on Fedora Linux are not reflected in Windows client
On my Fedora 42 Linux system, I have an ext4 file system named /pictures, which is exported as a Samba share. It is mounted on a Windows 10 system. When this is updated on the Linux side (mass renames,...
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Is there a way to link or mount a directory such that writing to the target goes to one destination, but reading from it grabs from another?
In my case, there are two NASes that I want some very large files written to, one with a fast connection and small storage, and another with a slower connection but large storage (let’s call them NAS ...
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Linux user changed permissions and ownership of shared folder file not created by him
I am using Linux Mint and my workmates are using Windows. We've got a local, shared server (also Linux) for documentation files and a weird thing happened yesterday: a windows user created a file (....
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POSIX-compliance of NMAKE
NMAKE by Microsoft comes with some components of Visual Studio. Is it POSIX-compliant?