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Ubuntu 22.04 File sharing (write permissions issue) with Windows 10/11
I have been struggling with getting a shared Samba share in Linux to be writable from Windows 10/11. I have found several questions on this but can't find a solution. I can see and list the samba ...
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How to Uninstall Ubuntu 20.04 from WSL Windows 10? [duplicate]
I have Windows 10 (build 19042.1110) installed on my PC, and I wanted to install Ubuntu 20.04 using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). So I enabled the WSL. However, I've not used the Microsoft Store ...
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Activation of network connection failed - Ubuntu 18.04 VM guest on Windows 10 Hyper-V Host
I have a Ubuntu 18.04 VM guest running in Windows 10 hyper-v.
The VM had previously been able to connect to the internet successfully. It recently stopped being able to connect and I cannot recall ...
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Installing Linux without disabling Bitlocker encryption
Is there a way to install and dual boot Ubuntu / Fedora along with Windows 11 without disabling bitlocker encryption?
Possible approach
The other solution for continuing to use Bitlocker extending ...
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Should I uninstall WSL or the old Linux distro before installing WSL2?
I was using Windows 10 version 1909 yesterday. I had WSL enabled with Ubuntu 18.04 installed.
Now I have updated to Windows 10 version 2004. How do I update to WSL 2 the cleanest way with no residue ...
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Linux file access on external drive using Windows 10
I have multiple machines (3 Windows 10 and 1 Ubuntu Bionic Beaver).
I back them up, or back up files/folders using drag and drop.
The external drive is all NTFS and is not set up as a NAS device. ...
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Ubuntu not showing in boot menu (Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows)
A couple of years ago, I set up my machine to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. At that time, it worked as expected and I was able to switch back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Today, I tried to ...
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Ubuntu - can't see my folders
First question here - please do let me know if I'm missing any necessary details / any structures and protocols that I may not be adhering to.
I've downloaded Ubuntu (version 18.04) on my Windows 10 ...
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Unable to submit the files by Rsync from the Windows terminal to Ubuntu VPS (code 12 error) while normal SSH authentication works fine
Although the Rsync is available for Windows, there are some problems with SSH. Here is the first one: the files are simply could not be submitted because of unclear error "error in rsync protocol ...
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How to configure linux guest that will have dynamic space , did set 25.00 GB virtual size but it keep running out of space
Virtual box Version 7.0.8 r156879 (Qt5.15.2) on windows ,
i configured ubuntu as guest OS on windows VB , all working good , i was thinking that if i set
virtual size to 25g it will be enough .
But it ...
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Can't install linux-libc-dev in Ubuntu on Windows
I'm trying to install linux-libc-dev with apt-get in Windows Subsystem for Linux (ubuntu), but I get an error and I can't seem to resolve it:
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/...
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Remote desktop gives me a black screen
I am trying to connect remotely with remote desktop from my windows machine to my ubuntu 20 machine but I get only a black screen
First I did (as I wrote in this question)
>sudo systemctl status ...
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How can I view something running on a linux machine from a windows machine?
The setting is a bit confusing but please keep up with me
I have a linux machine on a remote location. There is also a windows machine there. All of them connected with a LAN
There is a program ...
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Multi-booting: Installing multiple Windows 10 OS's alongside multiple Linux OS's
When searching online regarding installing multiple versions of Windows 10. Every site mentions that Windows 10 will have it own "Selection screen" for OS's.
E.g. when you boot your PC, ...
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Dual Boot issue with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16 on Asus GT 703G laptop
Aim:
I wanted to make it dual boot with Ubuntu 16 and Windows 10. Complete system specs are shown in the screenshot below.
The things I tried:
Based on various blogs particularly this.
The major ...
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How to restrict root access to other users/partitions
Setup:
Laptop dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10 or 11 (both are fine for me).
I have the issue where I need to install some anti-virus software as root on Ubuntu. However this software is really ...
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Not able to boot from Windows USB on Ubuntu
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a laptop running Ubuntu.
But the problem is, it's not booting from the USB.
Details:
Tried formatting USB drive as FAT and NTFS.
It get's detected in BIOS menu, so ...
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Stuck in emergency mode (Ubuntu) after Windows 10 reinstall
After reinstalling Windows 10, I am now unable to boot into Ubuntu 22.04.
The message displayed right after the boot failure is the following:
Right afterwards, I entered maintenance mode and typed ...
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Creating shared folder between two Windows Subsystem for Linux
I discovered today that I have two WSL installed on my computer (Windows 10): one for Ubuntu 18.01 (will call it WSL 18.01) and one for Ubuntu 20.04 (WSL 20.04). WSL 18.04 is the only one I have used ...
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Editing files in a Windows Subsystem for Linux development environment
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) works pretty well for making most commandline Linux tools available and working on Windows without modification. However, it gets a little tricky for development, ...
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Can’t boot from USB on Windows tablet
I have a Windows tablet ZTE W105 that I want to install Linux on. The tablet finds the USB stick but when I boot from it nothing happens, it just restarts and returns to Windows. I have tried changing ...
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How to recover folder overwritten by `mv` command in ubuntu
How to recover folder overwritten by mv command in Ubuntu-20.04 on wsl2?
I was moving two folders, folderA and folderB from current directory to dest.
Here is what I did:
mv folderA ./dest/folderA
mv ...
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Install Windows 10 after Ubuntu 19.10 on a secondary HDD
This is my primary SSD which has Ubuntu 19.10 installed.
SSD_Ubuntu
This is my secondary HDD which has 500 GB allocated to Kali(/dev/sda2) and two ext4 partitions /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5
HDD
I'd ...
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WSL2 GUI not working
I am trying to get GUIs working with WSL2, but nothing I tried works.
I turned off the Firewall for home networks (just for testing).
I started Vcxsrv with the following options: Multiple Windows, ...
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Windows Partition Not Bootable
I have Linux installed on a different partition on my drive than windows. Me, being really stupid, I run sudo rm -rf /*(I wanted to delete the contents of a folder obviously, not all the contents of ...
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Dual booting linux and windows on 2 hard drives
first I wanna say that I’m new to both linux and dual booting so mistakes can be made while I’m trying to explain this.
My situation is the following.
I’ve always have been a windows user, I did ...
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Cannot flash SD Card within Guest OS - VirtualBox
Background:
Host OS: Windows 10 Professional
Guest OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Host OS:
I am able to add files, edit files and add folders.
Verified that SD card is read and write card
Guest OS:
I am able to ...
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How to get back windows 10 boot loader after uninstalling ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu a few months ago now I had to uninstall it die to some reason but I forgot to install windows boot loader and restarted the pc. It is showing a black screen how to boot again with ...
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Hyper-V Generic Failure + Ubuntu error 0x8007023e on Windows 10 Pro
I've been experiencing some problems with running Ubuntu 20.04 as a distribution of Windows Subsystem on Linux. I want to run it as a virtual machine on Hyper-V. I'm rather new to this, so I'm not ...
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Decrease partition size for ubuntu dual boot
I have windows 10 and ubuntu 20.04 dual booted and I don't use ubuntu much. I gave ubuntu a lot of space which I can use for windows. Now I want to reduce the size of the partition😐. I have ...
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