Questions tagged [windows]
Use this tag for interoperability with Microsoft Windows (dual boot, virtual machines, mixed networks, porting software, …)
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Wine cmd automatically escapes quotes, adds backslash
$ wine cmd /c 'echo "hello world"'
\"hello world\"
Where do the backslashes come from?
The command behaves differently in an interactive session:
$ wine cmd
Microsoft Windows 6.1....
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How to get out of the Linux/Windows dualboot setup disaster [closed]
I have a two-drive PC that originally came with Windows 11 preinstalled. As I wanted to use linux for projects/research I decided to install omarchy on the second drive.
During Omarchy installation ...
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KDE Plasma crashing in Debian Bookworm on AMD 64 Processor with Xming / XDMCP
I have been having this problem for quite some time. I am using Xming to contact my headless Debian Bookworm server via XDMCP under Windows (various versions).
The login screen comes up and I can log ...
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Samba wide links makes share inaccessible on Asustor NAS (ADM 5, Samba 4.20.0, Windows 11)
I am trying to set up a Flamenco render farm for Blender. One of the requirements is that symlinks work across Samba shares and Windows clients (Flamenco docs).
According to this Unix SE answer, the ...
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I need to get my microphone, camera, and speaker working on a remote machine over X11
I have a strange situation that needs a strange solution. I have a Windows 7 machine that will not run a particular application. The application is web based so I would like to try using it on my ...
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Changes in a Samba share on Fedora Linux are not reflected in Windows client
On my Fedora 42 Linux system, I have an ext4 file system named /pictures, which is exported as a Samba share. It is mounted on a Windows 10 system. When this is updated on the Linux side (mass renames,...
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Linux user changed permissions and ownership of shared folder file not created by him
I am using Linux Mint and my workmates are using Windows. We've got a local, shared server (also Linux) for documentation files and a weird thing happened yesterday: a windows user created a file (....
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With NTFS-3G & permission control, how to avoid "Deny" permission being added which overrides permission of file owner?
When a logical NTFS partition is mounted on Linux using NTFS-3g + "permission" mounting option + UserMapping, I often found that "execution" permission of the same file may be ...
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Windows 10 boot option disappeared after first time installing grub on Arch linux
Well, today I installed Arch Linux. I installed grub with os-prober. I ran every command needed to successfully show the boot options menu (mounted EFI partition of Windows 10, run is proper, used ...
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Any way to grab emails off an old NTFS disk? [closed]
This might question might not have a 'legal' answer but I'll ask it anyway.
My dad is 15 year dead but I still have the disk out of his old Windows computer.
It seems my sister want's me to try to dig ...
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GRUB fails to chainload Windows after booting Arch Linux
I have a dual boot setup with:
A fresh installation of Arch Linux (manual) on a SATA HDD
Windows 11 installed on an NVMe M.2 SSD
Grub is installed on the HDD, and both operating systems are ...
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Installing Kali Linux on a external HDD, dual-booting with Windows 10
I have Oracle VM on my Windows 10 laptop and installed Kali Linux on it.
But after using the VM several times, Kali Linux crashes and does not launch.
So, I decided to install Kali Linux on an ...
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User permissions on shared files in dual boot system (Windows, Linux): unable to edit shared file on Linux
I'm running Windows 10 & Fedora Linux 40 KDE Plasma on the same system. Each OS is installed on a different physical drive. I also have an additional SSD drive mounted on the system, which is ...
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Why does Windows 11 work in Qemu with CPU type qemu64?
I am not sure whether this question is more related to Linux or to Windows. However, here we go:
Using qemu-system-x86_64 7.2.15 on Debian bookworm with kernel 6.1.0 / amd64 on a server with two Xeon ...
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Printing from Windows to CUPS with Raw queue
(I'm sorry for duplicating this question from Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange, but i think, that the problem is not related to a specific UNIX-os)
I have a problem setting up a printer in my office.
First ...
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Inaccessible Windows partition [closed]
I recently tried to dual boot install Linux on my Windows laptop it failed and my Windows boot partition and files are inaccessible. Linux is bootable and I can see two drives using lsblk - nvme0n1 ...
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Windows 10 guest in Qemu/KVM on Linux Mint host has no sound
I have installed Windows 10 in Qemu/kvm on a Linux Mint 22 machine. All things appear good but the Windows has no sound. However, when I connect to windows via RDP using Remmina, the Windows sound is ...
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mount of smb share does work on Debian 11 but not on Debian 12 and uses wrong user
I have a kind of strange bug. I try to mount smb/cifs share of windows server 2019 as server using Debian as client. The following exact command does work on Debian 11.11 but not on 12.9 with myuser ...
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I have a Linux Mint + Windows 10 dual-boot system, but I can't get the boot menu to show
[Context: I am more than ready to end my ~35yr relationship with MS and, after many hrs investigation, have chosen Linux Mint Cinnamon 22 as my next main OS. In order to ensure I can still use some ...
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Using Bash, mysteriously don't need "export" command
I'm using Cygwin to get Linux functionality on Windows 11. Specifically, I am using Cygwin's xpdf to browse PDFs. It can open a hyperlinked URL if $BROWSER is set. Mysteriously, I found that I don'...
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Passing files to windows guest
I know this is a question which has been asked many times before, and it should be simple. I think I'm close but I must be doing something wrong.
This is my first time using QEMU and I'm really ...
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Map network drive from Windows 10 to Fedora 41 fails
My office network has several Fedora servers with Samba. On one, I recently had to re-install Fedora, and my Win10 desktop will no longer connect.
```Network Error
Windows cannot access \\server....
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How to specify the Windows partition in GRUB in dual boot?
I have shrunk windows partition and installed Linux, successfully, however Linux is booting without issues, but Windows is not coming up.
I guess I haven't specified windows partition in config file ...
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How can I start the GUI of Ubuntu (running under Windows)?
I installed Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS from the Microsoft Store directly under Windows.
There is written it contains a GUI (Graphical User Interface?).
What's the name of this GUI, and how can I start it?
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Msys64/mingw64 trouble, why its 'ln' command did `copy`
On Msys2 env.:
$ cd /c/msys64/mingw64/lib/
$ ln -s libz.dll.a libzlib.dll.a
But confusingly why
ln
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instead of linking it symbolically ?
$ ls -l libz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 abdu None 108700 ...
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