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Use this tag for interoperability with Microsoft Windows (dual boot, virtual machines, mixed networks, porting software, …)

Questions about Microsoft's Windows itself are off-topic on this site. If MS-Windows knowledge is required to answer your question, you are more likely to reach an appropriate audience at Super User, or at Server Fault if your question is that of a professional system administrator.

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Bluetooth Pairing on Dual Boot of Windows & Linux Mint/Ubuntu - Stop having to Pair Devices

When dual booting Windows 7/10 and Linux Mint/Ubuntu, you may find yourself having to re-pair your Bluetooth devices again and again. This will happen every time you switch OS. Now, how do you prevent this? I'm answering my own question with the…
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How do you make samba follow symlink outside the shared path

This is Ubuntu server 10.04 64 and samba 3.4.7. I have a shared directory /home/mit/share and another one /home/temp that I link into the shared one: ln -s /home/temp /home/mit/share/temp But on windows, after using internet, I cannot open S:/temp,…
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Can I connect to Windows machine from Linux shell?

I can connect to Linux machines from Windows using PuTTY/SSH. I want to do the other way round - connect to a Windows machine from Linux. Is this possible?
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File system compatible with all OSes?

I use Linux and Mac OS X on a regular basis, and sometimes I have to use Windows. I need to use a flash drive on all three, and I need a filesystem that will work well on all of them. None of the ext's work on Mac or Windows, HFS+ doesn't work on…
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How to create a Samba share that is writable from Windows without 777 permissions?

I have a path on a Linux machine (Debian 8) which I want to share with Samba 4 to Windows computers (Win7 and 8 in a domain). In my smb.conf I did the following: [myshare] path = /path/to/share writeable = yes browseable = yes guest ok = yes public…
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A layman's explanation for "Everything is a file" — what differs from Windows?

I know that "Everything is a file" means that even devices have their filename and path in Unix and Unix-like systems, and that this allows for common tools to be used on a variety of resources regardless of their nature. But I can't contrast that…
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How to mount a windows/samba windows share under Linux?

Under Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) I want to mount a windows share / windows partition named //winshared on the network. I do not know the IP or anything else. On one Ubuntu system, I am able to mount a directory with mount //winshared/mypath…
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Boot windows from grub rescue command prompt

Previously I had installed the Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7. Now I logged on to Windows, opened the partition editor and deleted the volume containing the Ubuntu - I thought it will delete the Ubuntu and it might help me install another OS - and I…
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How to transfer files from Windows to Ubuntu on Virtualbox?

How should I transfer files from Windows to Ubuntu installed on Virtualbox? When I plugged in a USB, it only pops up in Windows. How can I see it in Ubuntu?
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What is Linux doing differently that allows me to remove/replace files where Windows would complain the file is currently in use?

The example I have is Minecraft. When running Bukkit on Linux I can remove or update the .jar files in the /plugins folder and simply run the 'reload' command. In Windows, I have to take the whole server process down because it will complain that…
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Can I transfer files using SSH?

I am using PuTTY on Windows 7 to SSH to my school computer lab. Can I transfer files from my Windows machine to my user on the school machines using SSH?
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How to create a bootable Debian USB drive using Windows

I am running Windows 10 and am starting to learn how to boot from USB devices. I have a 16GB USB (USB 3.0) drive and I want to do the following: Make the 16GB USB drive run Debian Linux. Keep Windows 10 on my C: drive. Not partition my hard drive…
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Execute a .exe on a samba share

I have a linux machine and a windows machine, the linux machine has a samba share with a .exe file on it. I can read and write files from the windows machine to the samba share, but I cannot execute the .exe file. How can I setup samba to allow me…
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Shared folder between QEMU Windows guest and Linux host

In the past I have used Virtual Box which has very good support for sharing a folder on the host with a Windows guest. I am looking for similar functionality for QEMU. The documentation suggests to expose a Samba server running somewhere in the…
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Can GRUB2 share the EFI system partition with Windows?

I have an existing Windows 7 GPT installation, which already has a EFI System partition. I am now trying to install a Linux on a separate harddisk, which is also GPT formatted. I did not find any working way to get grub booting without EFI system…
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