Unanswered Questions
21,611 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Windows Defender Waking Up Hard Drive
I have an external hard drive that I only use for storage, I almost never write data to it but it can be useful if I want to access some data that I have in it.
When it’s possibile I’d like for the ...
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Raspberry Pi won't bring up wlanX interface - multiple wireless interfaces
Let me jump straight in.
I am using a raspberry pi 3 running latest version of raspbian (pixel) as a router/wifi hotspot
I have 3 wireless interfaces:
built in wifi interface (brcmfmac)
TP-Link ...
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Attach to the same tmux session from different nodes of a cluster
I'm working on a computing cluster which has several hundreds of nodes. A load-balancing scheme picks an idle node to login to when ssh-ing into the cluster. As a result, it is very unlikely to re-...
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NTFS external hard drive formatted on Linux is not recognized by Windows
I fully formatted a hard drive in NTFS on Linux from a completely empty (zeroed) drive and it is not recognized by Windows 10. It is not listed in the Windows File Explorer nor with the fsutil fsinfo ...
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What IP/ports should be opened for Docker Hub?
Given our client's restrictions, we cannot have our VMs completely open to the internet. However, we sometimes need to pull Docker images from Docker Hub.
We can white-list IP addresses and ranges, ...
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Windows XP installation disk for XP Mode under Windows 7?
I am running XP mode under Windows 7, for testing / troubleshooting software.
I am trying to install a third party driver(unidrv printer), and I get stuck at
Setup failed to locate required files. ...
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Cannot make mobile broadband Vodafone USB connection Ubuntu 13.04
I have Ubuntu 13.04 and I bought yesterday a Vodafone USB stick for internet connection. I am located in Romania.
This is what I've did:
First Thing
Network Connections, added connection.
Selected ...
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sshfs: cannot set file timestamp
Using sshfs with autofs on Ubuntu, I cannot set timestamps on remote files:
$ touch /sshfs/server/some/file
touch: setting times of `/sshfs/sshfs/server/some/file': Permission denied
I do have write ...
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ssh randomly can connect, and sometimes "kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host"
Connecting to my server has never been a problem. But now I've added a mesh router in bridge mode to my regular router, and when I try to ssh to my server, sometimes it works fine, and other times ...
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Laptop won't boot, restarts on its own + black screen
yesterday I was playing on my Win 7 laptop when suddenly my screen went into this colorful faulty state, something of this
, though not exactly. And a second after my laptop died starting itself up ...
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Shared connection frequently closes when opening a new connection
I'm making heavy use of reusing a shared connection which I open to a remote box at the beginning of my workday.
My .ssh/config looks somewhat like this:
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/...
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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Enable SMB file sharing on OS X - "Incorrect Password"
I have a Mac running Snow Leopard connected to an Active Directory domain. I can share folders on the Mac and view files from Windows without problems.
When I try to enable my Mac account for write ...
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Pass VirtualBox Guest connections through proxy
The computer is inside a company and only have internet access through proxy. I want the guest inside the VirtualBox to access the internet without changing anything in the guest. The host is Windows ...
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How to prefer ipv6 over ipv4 only for specific websites?
I only have ipv6 connectivity via a HE tunnel on my router, so normally I want to prefer ipv4 over ipv6. For some websites however, I would like to prefer ipv6.
Right now I have just set ...
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Forcing *BSD to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic on a single socket
I have tried a ton of stuff and keep coming up entirely empty handed.
Allow me to frame the situation:
I have a *BSD Jail setup in FreeNAS that runs a Plex Media Server (Plexpass). It has IPv6 ...
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netplan configuration not active -- ubuntu 18.04
trying to set up a fixed IP address on one of two NIC. I try using netplan. Not working at all.
Not an expert on this, I am out of my wits and ready to roll back to some other way (networkd). Maybe ...
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Windows Explorer freezes for 30 seconds when I click on (or even mouse over) a disconnected network drive
I have a network drive mapped in My Computer and displayed on the task bar beside my other drives.
Sometimes the server which hosts the network drive is physically powered off.
When the server is ...
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Docker is creatting another default network route overriding default one and disabling internet connection
I'm using docker, and when I started some container it starts the docker network interface. With it the daemon set-up 2 new routes, including a new default route, overriding my old one. And, of course,...
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What is IPv6 connection sharing and why do I want it?
I can't easily find any good information on what IPv6 connection sharing is, nor how it affects my local network topology. I can only find a bunch of information on how to enable it and how turning it ...
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive
I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it.
Since the drive is very old, and ...
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LVM and Superblock failure; how to recover?
How do you repair the superblock of an LVM volume? Alternatively, how do you recover the data on an unmountable lvm logical volume?
I recently added a second hard disk, extended my volume group and ...
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What causes this HDD sector damage pattern?
Out of curiosity, I ran GNU ddrescue on a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB hard drive with known bad sectors, and then I visualized the ddrescue mapfile with ddrescueview.
When I zoomed in, this ...
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Make Genymotion use a host VPN
I'm using Cisco's AnyConnect to connect to a VPN using my Windows 8.1 PC. When using the Genymotion emulator, I would like it to use the VPN too. However, although having Internet access from the ...
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How can I create a user-specific HOSTS File?
I know that by editing my HOSTS file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), I can block any site, but I would like to take this a step further.
Is it possible (in Windows XP or newer) to have ...
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'IpICSHlpStopSharing' : '0x80070490' in event log
Suddenly I begin to see a lot of errors in my event log (Windows 10 Pro Build 19041):
'IpICSHlpStopSharing' : '0x80070490'.
Source: Host-Network service.
I am working with Hyper-V (and Docker) and ...
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Win 10: Disable "Restoring Network Connections" popup when connection to network drives drop
Whenever I get disconnected from my network drives and I happen to have like 10 folders of the network drive folders opened, 10 of these pop-ups will show up and I cannot close any of the windows ...
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How do these VPNs achieve per-app tunneling?
I want to redirect traffic to specific network interfaces by application on Windows. This is commonly known as "split-tunneling" and a lot of people often do this to selectively send traffic,...
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How to use Windows WSL to configure routing? Is this possible?
I noticed that IP forwarding appears to be enabled in WSL (Windows 10pro 1709), according to sysctl. I'm hoping I can use this to make a software router on WSL -- to play with Hyper-V VM traffic on ...
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How to force a specific software to use proxy?
I want to use a Tor SOCKS proxy on some programs (e.g. Android Studio) but not all.
I'm a Windows 10 user. How can I do that?
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Configuring unbound to resolve resolve on mdns
I am trying to set up my own home DNS server, partly to allow computers without avahi/Bonjour to resolve .local addresses. (e. g. unrooted Androids) I am trying to use unbound for this. Since I know ...
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Windows detecting mystery device
I have just installed Windows 8.1 and I have noticed a mystery device being detected under Networks.
Here is a screenshot showing the device and its properties. It identifies itself as a Nexus 7 - a ...
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How to setup OSX as a wifi router from the command line
I need to setup my mac as wifi-router. I want it to appear indistinguishable from a stand alone wifi-router. I don't want internet access.
Things I've tried.
Turning on Internet Sharing
Doesn't ...
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VMware - Startup in Unity Mode
I can't figure out how to get VMware to start up in unity mode. Is this possible? I want the guess OS to startup in unity mode, with selected application(s). I am using VMware workstation on the the ...
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Can't use local default gateway with Cisco Anyconnect VPN connection
I'm using Cisco Anyconnect as my VPN client on Windows 7. When I connect to VPN, all my traffic is routed through the remote gateway, but I'd like the traffic to route through the local gateway.
I've ...
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Forward IPsec tunnel from IPv4 endpoint to IPv6 endpoint
I have a new ISP and only have a Dual Stack - lite connection now. That means I can't access my router via IPv4 anymore, since the external IPv4 address is private. I have native IPv6 connectivity.
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Bluescreen Stop 0x00000027 RDR_FILE_SYSTEM after cloning system on new HDD
A couple of months ago I got a new 500GB HDD for my no-name-brand Laptop PC and I cloned the complete Win 7 Pro 32bit system with clonezilla from the old 70GB drive to the new one. At first everything ...
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wmiprvse.exe does a lot of disk seeking activity once every day
wmiprvse.exe process does a lot of disk activity, working with all files in system32 directory (according to filemon).
Any other process which wants to do smth with disk is very slow while wmiprvse....
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Why doesn't Skype want to turn on?
What's the problem with Skype that doesn't want to turn on? So yes, I have installed Skype and when I run it it shows up as normal but at the point that it is logged in the process suddenly disappears....
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Trying to ssh into IPv6 address, getting "no route to host"
I have a home computer that uses Ubuntu 22.04, that I'd likely to remotely SSH into, from the internet. I'm trying to do this through its public IPv6 address. The address doesn't begin with fe80::, so ...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address
I have a Macbook Air (M1, 2020) with macOs Big Sur installed. I just wiped my device and reinstalled the OS. What I want to do, is change, remove or add interfaces, but I can't.
Evertime I try to ...
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How do I get my modem's IP address when using Google Wifi?
Occasionally I need to connect my ISP's modem directly to initiate a restart.
Normally when I connect to my modem directly, I can either connect to the modem using the vanity URL provided by the ISP, ...
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Some USB devices not working properly on a new W10 x64 machine
Can you help me with a problem that I have with some USB devices not working properly on a new built machine.
I hope you will be able to help me, being myself a power user, but here a little lost in ...
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In split-tunneling, how do I configure OpenVPN so that it uses domain instead of IP based routing rules?
I live in a place where Google/Facebook/Twitter and a few other websites are not available from accessing. OpenVPN is a great tool to overcome this.
Originally, I must have OpenVPN running all the ...
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VM got 10.0.x.x address instead of 192.168.x.x address?
I've searched the similar question (and prepared to be downvoted too).
I'm new to virtualbox, and I have Ubuntu-server-VM (with guest addition installed) run on my Windows-10-Host using VirtualBox-5.2....
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No DHCP Reply on bridge with QEMU and TAP interface
I have a host machine running a virtual machine with QEMU and i want the DHCP server on the host providing an IP address to it.
I am using static ethernet addresses for the guests, so i start them up ...
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Drive missing from Optimize Drives since upgrade to Windows 10 1803
Since upgrading Windows 10 (Pro) to version 1803, one of my drives is missing from the Optimize Drives list. The drive in question is, my D:-drive, a software-defined RAID-0 (striped) over two disks.
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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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Will the write pointers in drive-managed SMR drives ever be reset?
I own a Seagate Expansion Desktop 5TB external hard drive, containing a ST5000DM000 according to hdparm. While information found on the internet is inconclusive, I strongly suspect that this drive ...
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