Use this tag for interoperability with Windows (dual boot, virtual machines, mixed networks, porting software, …)
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dual booting ubuntu and windows 8. w8 boots through grub shell, but not from menu
I have a laptop, with installations of Ubuntu 12.10, and Windows 8.
Windows 8 was first installed on the system, and Ubuntu was installed afterwards.
During the Ubuntu installation, the installer ...
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Accessing a SMB share without a password
When accessing SMB shared that are password-protected, smbclient works just fine.
But when I'm trying to access shared that have no password protection (public shares), smbclient prints:
tree ...
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Possible to dual boot Linux Mint on any Windows 8 laptop?
I'm searching for a new laptop, and I'm currently considering getting an ASUS N56VZRH71. Everything spec-wise looks good (except for the absence of an SSD :P), but I want to know if I'll be able to ...
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Configuring File Associations in Ubuntu with Wine
Related to this question, I have Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I downloaded PlayOnLinux 4.1.9 (the Precise version) and used it to install Microsoft Office 2010 Pro. PlayOnLinux downloaded Wine 1.5.21 and ...
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Is it possible to remove Windows 7 from dual-boot?
I have Windows 7 as primary OS with Linux Mint as secondary OS. I am just feeling comfortable with Linux and want to remove Windows from the disk.
Is it possible to remove it without damaging data?
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SMB Mount To Windows Server Appears to Lock up. Any Ideas?
We are running CentOS 6.3 with all the latest updates. (Attempt to resolve this issue)
The Server I am trying to connect to is a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. Though this applies to our old SBS'03 Box ...
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Querying Microsoft SQL SERVER 2008 from Linux
Basically I want to write all the lines of a text file present in linux machine to Microsoft SQL server database. I need a shell script to connect from my Linux machine to a remote Microsoft SQL ...
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Can the grub2 bootloader replace Windows bootloader partition?
I'm dual-booting Windows and Kali Linux on my laptop, using grub2 as the bootloader.
Can I remove the partition Windows 7 creates for the bootloader? It is the 100MB partition labeled "System ...
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QEMU Direct Access to Video Card (or, QEMU Video Output without X11)
I have a system that boots up into Linux at power on and then needs to boot into Windows XP Embedded. After messing around with kexec and grub4dos, things aren't working out too well.
One idea that ...
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How to configure GRUB to load Windows 7 Install in UEFI mode
I have a Dual-Boot USB I created with Multisystem for booting into PartedMagic, Ubuntu 11.10 & Windows 7 Install. Problem is Windows 7 says it cant install on a GPT partition.
Googled, and found ...
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How to build a live Debian CD/USB in Windows, bootable in EFI mode?
I tried to install the latest stable Debian release (Debian 7.0 "Wheezy") using the Debian Multi-arch netinstall (AMD64) "debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso" on my laptop. My laptop has a SecureCore ...
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Dual boot - Kubuntu and Windows 8 - how to?
I recently installed Windows 8 on my computer.
These are the specs:
Fx-8150 CPU
8 GB RAM
ATI HD7870
120 GB SSD
2 TB HDD
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (rev 1.1) (only bios but EFI mode possible ...
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Are the keyboard layouts in X.org actually called the X.org layouts or what?
Just need to know it, semantically. So most Linux/BSD systems using the X windows manager are using these layouts. For example, the "US International with dead keys" is quite different in X from the ...
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Fedora 17 Grub not finding Windows 8
I had Windows 8 installed, shrunk it and installed Fedora 17 using the free space. It now only boots into Fedora.
I have these two EFI partitions:
/dev/sda2
/EFI
/Boot/bootx64.efi
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Backtrack 5 R2 Dual-Boot w/Windows 7 No Longer Loads
A while back, I installed Backtrack 5 R2 to Dual Boot on a Windows 7 PC. It worked fine for a while, but now when I try to load it, the screen gets all messed up (tried to get a picture with my phone, ...
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AIX UNIX 64 bit connecting to Microsoft SQL server 2008R2 Server
I am having AIX 64 bit Unix machine and I need to connect to Microsoft SQL SERVER 2008 R2 database.
I dont have any Drivers and TDS installed in my machine.
What all tools I need to install including ...
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From Windows 7 + Ubuntu to Crunchbang (First) + Windows 8 (second?)
I'm dual booting a windows 7 + ubuntu machine. I went ahead and replaced ubuntu with crunchbang, and now want to replace (not in place upgrade) windows 7 with windows 8. However, I've always done a ...
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Adding Windows user to Linux group; possible?
I have a NAS that runs on Linux and I connect to it from my Windows desktop. I noticed that all directory in that drive belongs to user 'root' and group 'root'. That effectively denies me the right to ...
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Windows host shares doesn't get mount when I boot into Linux guest in vmware?
I've enable network shares in vmware and I want to share a Windows folder with my Linux guest OS but I don't know where to look in my guest OS? In Linux I've looked into network shares and samba ...
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Dual boot windows 8 and Linux Mint 13 (based on Ubuntu 12.04)
I've searched a lot for my problem but couldn't be sure what should I do in my case.
I bought my Asus N56VZ several months ago, and it came with Windows 7 and bunch of bloatwares that I don't like, ...
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How do I mount a Windows folder with cifs on Raspian
I'd like to access the music library from my desktop with my Raspberry Pi, and I'd like to do this via Samba/cifs.
I did the following:
Set the folder Q:\musik as a shared folder on my Windows ...
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Fedora installer doesn't see my Windows 7 partitions
I tried to install Fedora 17 on the same disk I have Windows 7. First I got the message, that there are no free space to create partition, even in Windows part of disk was marked as unallocated.
I ...
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The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state
I try to mount a NTFS partition in nautilus, and it refuse to mount it and suggests resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), the problem is that I have already disabled ...
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Creating Windows self-extracting executables that can auto-run a script
Does a tool exist (preferably packaged in Debian) to create Windows self-extracting executables that can auto-run a script in the archive once the extracting is done?
I've been toying with NSIS but I ...
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Unable to Boot into F17
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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How do I get Linux on my sat nav?
I have a Clarion MAP680 navigation system, with some version of Windows CE on it. Is there any way I could hack it to get my beloved Linux on it?
It seems to have a 1 GB flash drive or something, and ...
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Samba and Active Directory limitations
I was wondering if somebody could help me with a question on a networking assignment I have do do with Active Directory and Samba working together (I chose SAMBA). I understand using a Samba domain ...
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Making a Linux audio recording device available on a Windows 7 PC over network
I would like to use my headset's microphone both on my Linux laptop and a Windows 7 PC simultaneously, for different VoIP applications. I'm currently running Ubuntu with PulseAudio on the laptop to ...
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Triple Boot - Mac, Windows, Backtrack
This was the closest stackexchange site I could find to something of this nature.
Currently, I own a Macbook Pro with a Bootcamp Partition (Win7), a Mac Partition (OS X Lion), and the Recovery ...
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Linux Mint 13 can't detect SSD &/or Windows 7
I'm a newcomer to Linux OSes in general. I'm trying to install Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon alongside Windows 7. Linux Mint can't seem to see/detect either of my SSDs and because of that, it can't ...
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Unable to access Linux share from a Windows machine with NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME error
On the Linux machine I changed the smb.conf like this:
[john]
path = /root/john/downloads
available = yes
valid users = john
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
The path ...
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Unable to add ubuntu to windows domains? using centrify
I'm using this guide to add my linux (10.04 lucid) ubuntu machine to domain.
First I tried using likewise, but couldn't do this apparently due to some compatibility issues with 10.04 kernel. I had ...
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How to efficiently use Console2 with screen/tmux/byobu?
I'm using Console 2 and msysgit's bash to SSH into my Linux machines. There, I'm using screen (but considering tmux and/or byobu), but currently simply with one single-terminal session per ...
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How to recover a multiboot configuration after having installed Windows 7?
I've installed Windows 7 and XP on my laptop. After that, I installed RedHat 5.
Now the problem is that I'm not able to load my RedHat.
What should be done to fix this problem?
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How to make titlebars in XFCE bigger?
No matter how big font I set for titlebar, the height of the titlebar is not changed at all. I don't see any editbox where I could enter the desired height of titlebar.
So far, I only found ...
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Cent OS 6.4 UEFI Dual boot
i'm really a beginner to Linux trying to study for RHCSA certification here.
I have Windows 8 installed on UEFI BIOS. When i installed Cent OS, installation went smoothly and then after restarting, ...
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Dual boot windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 & Broadcom Compatibility
I have windows 8 pre-installed and also want to use Ubuntu (13.04) as my secondary OS. I had problems regarding Broadcom STA wireless drivers in 12.10 but the drivers work fine on older versions. How ...
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I'm able to remotely ssh into Cygwin on XP, but it warns “Could not chdir to home directory” and my /bin is almost empty
I've made a firewall exception, opened ports 22 through 443 to the correct internal IP (I think), and am able to log in using my external IP, but it's like I have very limited view access to almost ...
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Why does Arch Linux keep Windows headphone mute
I have an Windows 7 installed, and headphones works perfectly.
Few days ago, I have Arch Linux installed along with Win7.
headphone works fine under Arch Linux
but
When I turned to Win7 from ...
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I have replicated partition after I delete it using diskmgmt
I'm a linux newbie, and I messed my partition.
I have 5 partition in my 500GB HD, Windows 7, Data, Data, Linux Mint and Lubuntu.
I accidentally deleted Lubuntu partition using diskmgmt in Windows 7.
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Install/Boot problems after dual boot of Linux Mint on HP Ultrabook (Envy 14 1030us)
I have followed steps to install Linux Mint (as dual boot) on an HP Envy 14 ultrabook (1030us) as detailed by Raphink (on askubuntu "Dual boot Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on HP Ultrabook ENVY-4 ...
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How to merge a Windows 8 install with a Linux Mint, two different disks, same computer
I have a Windows 8 on a disk drive I removed, then installed Linux Mint on a new disk drive. I would like to place the Windows 8 back as dual boot... is this possible?
The problem was, I could never ...
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How to mount Windows shared folder on Redhat
Case::
I have to mount the windows shared folder on redhat directory /mnt or anywhere elese.
This is the Windows shared folder Path
D:\Analytics\Data\DownLoad This path will be mounted on Redhat so ...
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Cannot Map W7 Drive to Samba Server: Access Denied
I tried to make separate Samba accounts with different permissions, but now I can't login at all. I tried mapping a network drive from windows 7, and it says access denied every time, even though I'm ...
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SLES/OpenSuse dropped packets Hyper-V
We are trying to use SLES 11 running under Microsoft Hyper-V, However approximately 50% of the packets are dropped. This only seems to be a problem with SLES / OpenSuse. When running e.g. Ubuntu, the ...
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Partition wiped out possibly due to the partition table changed by Windows, malicious software, or …?
When the data loss problem occurred:
My Lenovo laptop has both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. There are two ntfs partitions shared between the two OSes: one for Windows 7 installation ,and the other for ...
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ArchBang dual boot with Windows: HowTo
I have been reading up on ArchBang, and I am quite interested to try it. My netbook does not have a CD/DVD drive, so I created USB installation stick using numerous Windows tools, like LiLi, and Linux ...
