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To perform a clean install
If you have a Windows .bkf file and want to “unpack” in on a Linux box, you can use mtftar to convert an MTF stream to a TAR stream.
This was a great find when a friend lost some data and all they had was an old .bkf file.→ Continue reading “Convert Windows .bkf File to tar File”
If you have to rename a large number of files under Windows it is very tedious to do it one-by-one via the gui. Instead of writing a batch file, Microsoft has a suite of tools called PowerToys. PowerToys installs a utility called PowerRename that will do the job.
I did this under Windows 10, but I imagine that it is the same in Windows 11 based on the documentation on the PowerToys installation page.
I was trying to run a Debian, Linux, guest on a Windows 11 Enterprise host with virtualization enabled for the VMWare Linux guest so that I could install minikube. Minikube requires running a VM on the host on which minikube is running, so essentially, a VM within a VM.
After enabling the “Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI” setting and attempting to boot the VM it indicated that this configuration was not supported on this platform.
After quite a bit of → Continue reading “[SOLVED] ‘Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform. Continue without virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT’ on Windows 11 host”
In order to be able to access a Samba share on a remote client as a mounted file system execute the following command, as root on the client:
mount -t cifs -o user=<user-on-samba-share,uid=<uid-on-local-macheine,gid=<gid-on-local-machine,rw,workgroup=<your-workgroup//ip/share /mnt/mount-point-dirYou will be prompted for the password for the user defined on the Samba server.
If you are able to authenticate, and then get the following error:
ls: reading directory .: Permission deniedCheck the SELinux context type of the directory on → Continue reading “Mounting a Samba Share From Linux Client to Linux Samba Server”
Using ADSI Edit, navigate to the user in question. Right-click on the user and select Properties.
Then, scroll down to the ‘userAccountControl’ property and click the Edit button.
Enter 66048 into the field and then click ‘OK’ and then ‘Apply’.
After closing the edit window, scroll to the right to confirm that the value indicates the following
'0x10200 = (NORMAL_ACCOUNT|DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD)'I am currently working on setting up multiple environments for a new project (DEV, QA, and PROD) and will be integrating all of the servers to an Active Directory Domain Controller for user management.
Following are notes from when I configured a Fedora Core 18 laptop to integrate with an AD server. It is likely things have changed some from then and I will update this as required for a current version of RHEL7/CentOS 7.
Install the following packages
yum Often administrators would like to configure a Samba share that enables users to have the same access to any files within the share. Without some additional configuration, directories and files created by one user will not have the r/w permissions for other users that have access to that same share.
The end goal is to have a Samba share in which any new files are created with r/w permissions for a specific group to which all of the members of → Continue reading “Creating a Samba Share and Configuring an Access Control List for a Shared Directory Under Linux”
If you want to run multiple versions of Notepad++ under Windows 7 create a .bat file with the following:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -multiInst %1And simply run the bat file via a cmd prompt/ → Continue reading “Running Multiple Instances of Notepad++ Under Windows 7”
To create a short cut and pin it to the task bar in Windows 7 do the following: