Questions Tagged With windows

secure automatic connection to MS-Windows file share (cifs)

daves dad — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:05:12 -0500

I can mount a windows file share with sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=~/Files/server-mount/credentials //sbs2008/local ~/Files/server-mount/. I would like to do this but:

~~Without root privileges.~~ (I can do this one, if I solve the other two.)
Without storing password, unencrypted.
Automatically on login.

I am using kubuntu 11.10

DUAL BOOT problem - UBUNTU-7.04 WITH WIN XP RPO

azeemest — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:03:34 -0400

Dear All,

I have already install win XP then I have install UBUNTU 7.04 in free space but next time WIN XP not in bootable option, and system directly enter into ubuntu

then vise vesa....

First I install Ubuntu7.04 in free space then I install WIN XP in partitiion C: but now system directly enter into XP without giving dual option. but ubuntu partition is still show in device manager. image is attached (problem in atached uploading require Karma >60 ???????)

regards. azeem

Which Linux distribution is better for newbies?

Phenom — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:31:48 -0400

I'm going to install Linux for someone who isn't even very good with Windows. I've narrowed it down to either Linux Mint or PCLinuxOS. Which one should I install? Are there any other Linux distributions I should be considering?

Also, should I install Gnome, KDE, or something else?

Ubuntu grub rescue prompt!! [closed]

Cyril Sebastian — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:16:34 -0400

Installed WUBI on windows and ubuntu installation completed, at first Ubuntu login it updated full patches and asked for REBOOT.

Now after reboot it is showing me the error:

no such devices found

grub rescue>

Can you share some commands, so that I could recover at least Windows. It is not even asking for the Windows login at the boot time.

Thnx.

Resizing with GParted makes (other) Windows 7 partition unusable

pmarini — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:08:57 -0400

Am I using it in the wrong way?
Luckily they were "temporary" Windows 7 RC versions that I was using while deciding whether to get rid of XP or not, but it would seem that when using GParted to do the partitioning, after rebooting in XP is fine but in 7 it says something along the line "partition invalid" or whatnot...
There are two primary partitions with the two Windows system on them and an additional Extended one with Linux.

addendum: the error message during boot is as follows
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
...
Status: 0xc0000225 Info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

I had done many resize before with Linux/XP partitions but never with 7 and aside the odd time when I had to reboot twice in order to get the correct drive letters under XP (as explained in the GParted manual) I never had any other problem or anything bad like this

Reading/Writing from/to a partition from Linux and Windows

carleeto — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:45:39 -0400

Here's the use case: I dual boot Windows and Linux. There are heaps of files that I share between them (one example would be about 65GB of snaps). I therefore need a partition that at the very minimum:

Linux can read and write
Windows can read

Ideally, I'd like both OSes to be able to read and write to it. Obviously, this depends on how I format the partition. I'm currently using NTFS.

So, does anyone know of an alternative way of doing it? Speed is not a concern. Accessibility of the data is. Secondary to that is the best possible use of the available space.

Options I've already tried:

An ext3 parition with ext2fsd on Windows. Not good enough because I've had BSODs while trying to copy heaps of folders simultaneously
Multiple FAT32 partitions. NTFS is better.

Backup my Linux Box to a Windows Server

JC — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:51:54 -0400

I am new to Linux and I have read the post "which backup tool".

After looking at some of the suggestions in existing post, I can not seem to find something that does what I want to do, at least not easily. Someone told me there was a command line DOS type utility I could use but I haven't seen anything like that.

I have a Linux Server running:

Linux version 2.6.9-89.0.23.ELsmp (mockbuild@builder10.centos.org) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-11)) #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 06:55:21 EDT 2010

The Linux Box host vmware's Server which in turn host a virtual machine.

I need to backup the entire Linux Box to my Windows 2003 Server with the goal of being able to do a cold metal restore should the linux box fail. I am looking for something that I can schedule to do a full backup and has a restore utility built into it.

Thanks --JC