The Command Line Rosetta Stone
A comparison for current operating systems inspired by the classic Unix Rosetta Stone
Archive of posts tagged windows
RDP to Windows 10 Home systems
To allow RDP to Win 10 Home you should: Copy rfxvmt.dll file into Windows\System32 Install RDP Wrapper (via zip, NOT MSI)
Windows shares no longer mounting on Linux
I use autofs to mount a windows share on my router, this stopped working with “mount error(112): Host is down”. Looks like it was due to some arch linux update, as per dmesg: [ 5986.858242] No dialect specified on mount. Default has changed to a more secure dialect, SMB3 (vers=3.0), from CIFS (SMB1). To use …
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Running ansible from a windows host
This is partly based on instructions from https://servercheck.in/blog/running-ansible-within-windows but uses a virtual environment and no checking out from Github / manually installing packages. Install Cygwin. Include following packages: python openssl / openssl-devel python-crypto python-openssl openssh Install & configure pip, virtualenv & virtualenvwrapper as per http://atbrox.com/2009/09/21/how-to-get-pipvirtualenvfabric-working-on-cygwin/ Create a virtual environment for ansible with mkvirtualenv –system-site-packages ansi …
Openssl / gnutls & Emacs on Windows
If you want this to work (for example for https elisp repositories) I strongly recommend you use the version of Emacs that is bundled with Cygwin.