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I have been using WSL2 for almost a year now and was always able to run windows tools from it without any problems.

Today I have noticed I am unable to do it anymore:

mark@L-R910LPKW:~$ alias npp
alias npp='/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe'
mark@L-R910LPKW:~$ ls -l /mnt/c/Program\ Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 mark mark 6629712 Apr  4 13:58 '/mnt/c/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe'
mark@L-R910LPKW:~$ npp
-bash: /mnt/c/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
mark@L-R910LPKW:~$

And it does not matter which windows tool I am trying to run - it does not run any.

A quick search of the Internet brought me to /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/WSLInterop, but I cannot create it:

mark@L-R910LPKW:~$ sudo -i
-bash: /mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
root@L-R910LPKW:~# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@L-R910LPKW:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/WSLInterop
-bash: /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/WSLInterop: Permission denied
root@L-R910LPKW:~#

I think it is an outdated piece of information anyway, because I can see a status file there and:

root@L-R910LPKW:~# cat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/status
enabled
root@L-R910LPKW:~#

I think there was some kind of an update to Windows (our work laptops are updated automatically) that broke it.

Finally, my details are:

root@L-R910LPKW:~# uname -a
Linux L-R910LPKW 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 02:56:13 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@L-R910LPKW:~#

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I want to open a console using credentials of someone else. Normally I do it with the runas command:

C:\> runas /user:$(cat ~\.ssh\ek | select -first 1) pwsh
Enter the password for ***:
Attempting to start pwsh as user *** ...
C:\>

Having entered the password, I can see the console opened and it works great.

However, I do not like that I have to type the password every time.

The Powershell's Start-Process should help, because I can pass it a credentials object. For example:

C:\> $creds = Import-Clixml -Path ~/.ssh/ek.creds
C:\> Start-Process pwsh -Credential $creds -WorkingDirectory ***
C:\>

At the end a console is open, but I am unable to use the keyboard - nothing happens when typing or pasting.

What am I missing?

This question is related to How to arrange a non admin command as a systemd service?

I have the following minikube.service file:

[Unit]
Description=Runs minikube on startup
After=vboxautostart-service.service vboxballoonctrl-service.service vboxdrv.service vboxweb-service.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/minikube start
User=mark
Group=mark

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And it works fine when I start it manually from the shell:

mark@minikube-vm:~$ sudo systemctl start minikube.service
mark@minikube-vm:~$ minikube ip
192.168.99.100
mark@minikube-vm:~$ systemctl status minikube.service
● minikube.service - Runs minikube on startup
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/minikube.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-09-25 17:32:48 UTC; 34min ago
  Process: 8388 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/minikube start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 46 (limit: 19141)
   CGroup: /system.slice/minikube.service
           ├─8434 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
           ├─8439 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown
           ├─8618 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless --comment minikube --startvm 6ec91432-0f09-4fdc-9976-6f736b15c37f --vrde config
           ├─8632 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP --comment HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0 --config /tmp/dhcp-config-kiyf3.xml
           └─8658 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

Sep 25 17:31:22 minikube-vm minikube[8388]: * Using the virtualbox driver based on existing profile
Sep 25 17:31:22 minikube-vm minikube[8388]: * Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
Sep 25 17:31:22 minikube-vm minikube[8388]: * Restarting existing virtualbox VM for "minikube" ...
Sep 25 17:31:23 minikube-vm pulseaudio[8658]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSu
Sep 25 17:31:23 minikube-vm pulseaudio[8658]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported:
Sep 25 17:32:16 minikube-vm minikube[8388]: * Preparing Kubernetes v1.19.0 on Docker 19.03.12 ...
Sep 25 17:32:43 minikube-vm minikube[8388]: * Verifying Kubernetes components...
Sep 25 17:32:48 minikube-vm minikube[8388]: * Enabled addons: dashboard, default-storageclass, storage-provisioner
Sep 25 17:32:48 minikube-vm minikube[8388]: * Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" by default
Sep 25 17:32:48 minikube-vm systemd[1]: Started Runs minikube on startup.
mark@minikube-vm:~$

But on machine boot it fails:

mark@minikube-vm:~$ systemctl status minikube.service
● minikube.service - Runs minikube on startup
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/minikube.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2020-09-25 17:18:09 UTC; 12min ago
  Process: 7140 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/minikube start (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Sep 25 17:16:39 minikube-vm minikube[7140]: * Using the virtualbox driver based on existing profile
Sep 25 17:16:39 minikube-vm minikube[7140]: * Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
Sep 25 17:16:39 minikube-vm minikube[7140]: * Restarting existing virtualbox VM for "minikube" ...
Sep 25 17:16:40 minikube-vm pulseaudio[7438]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSu
Sep 25 17:16:40 minikube-vm pulseaudio[7438]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported:
Sep 25 17:17:34 minikube-vm minikube[7140]: * Preparing Kubernetes v1.19.0 on Docker 19.03.12 ...
Sep 25 17:18:06 minikube-vm minikube[7140]: * Verifying Kubernetes components...
Sep 25 17:18:08 minikube-vm systemd[1]: minikube.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Sep 25 17:18:09 minikube-vm systemd[1]: minikube.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Sep 25 17:18:09 minikube-vm systemd[1]: Failed to start Runs minikube on startup.
mark@minikube-vm:~$

What am I missing?

I have a Hyper-V VM with 3 checkpoints. Now I want to extend the virtual hard drive, but I cannot because there are checkpoints.

Is there a tool that would allow me to do it anyway? I would like to preserve the checkpoints, of course.

• Both the host and the guest machines are Windows 10.
• The drive is VHDX.
• The VM is Gen2.

For example:

1. Server Manager → Manage → Server Manager Properties "Do not Start manager automatically at logon"
2. Server Manager → Local Server → IE Enhanced Security Configuration → Off

I have a file in an Azure File storage. I would like to download it using a DSC resource (xRemoteFile, for example).

The Azure File storage gives me an HTTPS url to that file, but it is not directly usable:

EDIT 1

Using SAS:

Next I am trying to use the SAS URL:

Still no dice.

EDIT 2

As you can see from the snapshots, the SasToken is

?sv=2017-07-29&ss=f&srt=o&sp=r&se=2020-05-10T00:41:14Z&st=2018-05-09T16:41:14Z&spr=https&sig=...

and the URL is

https://***.file.core.windows.net/?sv=2017-07-29&ss=f&srt=o&sp=r&se=2020-05-10T00:41:14Z&st=2018-05-09T16:41:14Z&spr=https&sig=...

i.e. the SasToken is appended to https://***.file.core.windows.net/

Observe the following DSC configuration:

Configuration Example
{
     Import-DscResource –ModuleName PSDesiredStateConfiguration

     node localhost
     {
          WindowsFeature 'NetFramework45'
          {
               Name   = 'NET-Framework-45-Core'
               Ensure = 'Present'
          }
     }
}

It enables the .NET 4.5 on a Windows Server. But the WindowsFeature resource only works on server. Now, I would like to reach the same effect on a non server machine. What would be the right way to express it in PowerShell DSC?

Suppose I have a product which I want to install on a non SSD drive, if exists. Otherwise, I want it to go on the drive C.

For example, the following configuration is supposed to install the Sql Server 2016 in the default location:

Configuration DevWorkstation
{
     Import-DscResource –ModuleName PSDesiredStateConfiguration
     Import-DscResource -ModuleName SqlServerDsc

     node localhost
     {
          WindowsFeature 'NetFramework45'
          {
               Name   = 'NET-Framework-45-Core'
               Ensure = 'Present'
          }

          SqlSetup 'InstallDefaultInstance'
          {
               InstanceName        = 'MSSQLSERVER'
               Features            = 'SQLENGINE,SSMS'
               SQLCollation        = 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS'
               SourcePath          = '\\fileserver\installs\en_sql_server_2016_developer_with_service_pack_1_x64_dvd_9548071'
               SQLSysAdminAccounts = @('Administrators')
               DependsOn           = '[WindowsFeature]NetFramework45'
          }
     }
}

However, I would like to check first if there is a non SSD drive and if present install it there.

As I understand it, I cannot use Powershell code, because that code runs during compilation. I need it to run during the configuration.

How do I do it?

I have an on-premises server and an Azure MSDN account. I heard that Azure supports the concept of a hybrid cloud where some server may be on-premises, not sure if I understand it correctly, though.

For example, I have a few on-premises servers and I wish to have a dashboard with their performance. Basic stuff - CPU and RAM. To be able to configure thresholds and alerts. Can I sort of "on-board" these servers to some kind of Azure Monitoring solution and get all that?

EDIT 1

This is what I can see:

The Save button is disabled. I do not understand how to advance from there.

EDIT 2

I could not find the "the big blue button that says “add the selected performance counters”" I can see a small blue button with the + sign, pressing which I get the following:

EDIT 3

So, I gave it to run a few hours, but there is still no data:

EDIT 4

EDIT 5

The heartbeat:

EDIT 6

I followed all the instructions. At the end and after a few days I noticed I have it! Switched to advanced analytics and here I have it:

Now all I need is a dashboard, better live, but if not the one I can easily refresh.

Problem - I have Logstash running on 13 different servers and I have no idea what is the current CPU and memory consumption of these java processes.

Sure, I can open Perfmon and connect to these 13 different servers and show the different performance counters ... in theory. In practice, it is hardly the way.

So, what is the way? How is it done sanely?

Please, observe:

markk@ip-10-203-82-54:~/work/gl$ uname -a
Linux ip-10-203-82-54 3.2.0-25-virtual #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 22:20:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
markk@ip-10-203-82-54:~/work/gl$ ls -la /etc/authbind/byport/80
-rwxrwx--- 1 markk markk 0 Aug 16 10:00 /etc/authbind/byport/80
markk@ip-10-203-82-54:~/work/gl$ authbind /usr/bin/java -Dcom.shunra.gl.ports=80 -jar server.jar
java.net.SocketException: Permission denied
        at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method)
        at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:137)
        at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:77)
        at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.Acceptor.bind(Acceptor.java:171)
        at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.Acceptor.<init>(Acceptor.java:88)
        at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.Listener.<init>(Listener.java:78)
        at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.ListenerManager.listen(ListenerManager.java:90)
        at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.ListenerManager.listen(ListenerManager.java:73)
        at org.simpleframework.transport.connect.SocketConnection.connect(SocketConnection.java:106)
        at org.restlet.ext.simple.HttpServerHelper.start(HttpServerHelper.java:93)
        at org.restlet.Server.start(Server.java:585)
        at org.restlet.Component.startServers(Component.java:601)
        at org.restlet.Component.start(Component.java:528)
        at com.shunra.gl.Main.main(Unknown Source)
^Cmarkk@ip-10-203-82-54:~/work/gl$

The machine is located in the amazon cloud.

Worth to mention, that when ran as root the server works as expected.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

P.S.

Adding the --deep authbind option or -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack java property makes no difference.

EDIT

I have installed tomcat6. It listens on port 8080. I can wget its index page locally, but not from the outside using the DNS provided name of the machine. However, if I change its port from 8080 to 11111, then I can get to it from the outside. Which means, that the tomcat server behaves exactly like my own with respect to this issue.

I have a Jenkins job running the signtool utility on a remote node, the console log looks like so:

Started by user anonymous
Building remotely on vm-builder
[VE] $ cmd /c call "C:\Documents and Settings\builder\hudson6959487656440210459.bat"
USERNAME=builder

d:\work\workspace\VE>d:\work\workspace\VE\CodeSign\signtool.exe sign /f d:\work\workspace\VE\CodeSign\Shunra.pfx /p "shunrail" /t http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll /du "www.shunra.com" /v d:\work\workspace\VE\ShunraInstallationServices\lib\net\Release\ShunraInstallationServices.dll 

Number of files successfully Signed: 0

Number of warnings: 0

Number of errors: 1

SignTool Error: IStore2::Load returned error: 0x80090345

    The requested operation requires delegation to be enabled on the machine.

SignTool Error: An error occurred while attempting to load the signing

    certificate from: d:\work\workspace\VE\CodeSign\Shunra.pfx


d:\work\workspace\VE>exit 1 
Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

Note the USERNAME=builder line in the output. This is the same account I am using when logged on interactively to the remote machine, which is an XP virtual machine running on a Windows 7 box. The account is a local admin, of course.

Now, running the same signtool command from a console window (from an RDP session) works just fine, but when Jenkins tries to execute it, I get this delegation error message.

Another piece of information. The relevant process tree is:

bash.exe -c "cd d:\work && java -jar slave.jar"  # Jenkins remote execution through sshd on cygwin
  bash.exe
    java
      cmd   # Jenkins sent a request to the java agent to execute this Windows batch file
        signtool  # This is the signtool invocation

What is going on that signtool suddenly complains about this delegation stuff?

Thanks.

Currently, I am only aware of the following command:

C:\>bitsadmin /util /SetIEProxy NetworkService MANUAL_PROXY 1 92.168.0.200:8080 NULL

But, it has the following defects:

• It is deprecated
• It does not allow to set the credentials.

My question is how can I configure the proxy settings, including the credentials using a more up-to-date tool?

EDIT

I would like to stress that I am looking for a command line utility to do that.

Given:

1. vm - a WinXPsp3 virtual machine hosted by a Win7sp1 physical machine
2. alice is the user on vm
3. srv - a Win2008R2sp1 server
4. bob is the user on srv
5. quake - a linux server
6. mark is the user on quake
7. Both vm and srv have the same new installation of cygwin (1.7.9) and openssh.
8. Firewall service is disabled on vm (and its host) and on srv
9. All the machines can be pinged from all the machines.
10. ssh mark@quake works OK from both vm and srv.
11. ssh bob@srv works OK from both quake and vm.
12. ssh alice@vm works on the vm itself only, but it fails on the other two machines:

alice@vm ~
$ ssh alice@vm
alice@vm's password:
Last login: Tue Oct 25 23:42:09 2011 from vm.shunra.net

[mark@Quake ~]$ ssh -vvv alice@vm
OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to vm [172.30.2.60] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 172.30.2.60 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host vm port 22: Connection timed out

bob@Srv ~
$ ssh -vvv alice@vm
OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to vm [172.30.2.60] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 172.30.2.60 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host vm port 22: Connection timed out

I used ssh-host-config both on vm and srv to configure the ssh to run as a windows service. Besides that I did nothing else.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot this issue?

Thank you very much.

EDIT

The virtual machine software is VMWare Workstation 7.1.4. I think the problem is in its settings, but I have no idea where exactly. The Network Adapter is set to Bridged.

EDIT2

All the machines are located in the company lab, I think all of them are on the same segment, but I may be wrong. Below is the ipconfig /all output for each machine (skipping the linux server). I have deleted the Tunnel adapters to keep the output minimal. If anyone thinks they matter, do tell so and I will post them as well. In addition ping output is given to show that DNS is correct.

Something else, may be relevant, may be not. Doing psexec to srv works OK, whereas to vm failes with Access Denied.

srv:

C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : srv
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : shunra.net
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : shunra.net

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom BCM5709C NetXtreme II GigE (NDIS VBD Client)
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : E4-1F-13-6D-F3-00
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.6.9(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.248.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.0.254
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.1.1
                                       172.30.1.2
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

C:\Windows\system32>ping vm

Pinging vm.shunra.net [172.30.2.60] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 172.30.2.60:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 1ms

C:\Windows\system32>

vm:

C:\>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : vm
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : shunra.net
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : shunra.net
                                            shunranet

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : shunranet
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-8F-A0-0B
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.2.60
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.248.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.0.254
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.1.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.1.1
                                            172.30.1.2
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, October 25, 2011 18:16:34
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, November 02, 2011 18:16:34

C:\>ping srv

Pinging srv.shunra.net [172.30.6.9] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 172.30.6.9:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms

C:\>

vm-host (the host machine of the vm):

C:\>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : vm-host
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : shunra.net
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : shunra.net

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 6C-F0-49-E7-E9-30
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::f59d:7f6e:1510:6f%10(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.6.7(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.248.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.0.254
   DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 242020425
   DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-13-CC-39-80-6C-F0-49-E7-E9-30
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.30.1.1
                                       194.90.1.5
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::cd92:38c0:9a6d:c008%16(Preferred)
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.192.8(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
   DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 352342102
   DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-13-CC-39-80-6C-F0-49-E7-E9-30
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::edb9:b78c:a504:593b%17(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.5.1(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
   DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 369119318
   DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-13-CC-39-80-6C-F0-49-E7-E9-30
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

C:\>ping srv

Pinging srv.shunra.net [172.30.6.9] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.6.9: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 172.30.6.9:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\>ping vm

Pinging vm.shunra.net [172.30.2.60] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 172.30.2.60: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 172.30.2.60:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\>

EDIT3

I have just checked - the vm-host is able to ssh to the vm machine! I still do not know how to leverage this discovery to solve the problem.

We are migrating from SVN to Mercurial and this question has arised practically from day one. So, here is the given:

• Shared Mercurial repository residing on a dedicated server, which is continuously backed up.
• Developers pull revisions, work on them, make local commits, push back to the shared repository.
• Developers wish to backup their local commits.
• The backup engine is Mercurial.
• Backed commits are never pulled, except when the particular developer loses its yet unpushed work. This is expected to happen rather rarely.
• It should be relatively painless to restore the commits from the backup.

I tend to provide a special backup script, which would do something like this:

hg push -fr REV URL

As you can see, I am OK with having multiple heads in the backup repository, unless you convince me otherwise.

So, the question is about REV and URL, namely I see the following options for them:

• REV = default, URL per dev - Each developer is given a dedicated backup repository.
• REV per dev, same URL for all - Each developer is given a dedicated branch within the same backup repository.
• REV = default, same URL for all - All developers back their local commits into the default branch of the same backup repository.

I do not have much experience with Mercurial, so I find it really hard to decide which option is the best. Can anyone advise, please?

EDIT

I have now realized that my question exposes my total misunderstanding of the push command. Of course, I do not mean push -fr REV URL. What I really meant by REV is BRANCH, so the options should read:

• BRANCH = default, URL per dev
• BRANCH per dev, same URL for all
• BRANCH = default, same URL for all

Next, I have no idea how to push to a different branch.

For instance, a developer works in the default branch and wishes to backup its local commits to the special backup repository shared by all the other devs. Of course, this backup repository is not the one from which developers pull the new changes. Anyway, the backup needs to go to a branch dedicated to that particular dev, as stated per options 2. How do I do it? How can I tell push that the changes are pushed to a different branch?

Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft>whoami
shunranet\markk

Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft>cacls Crypto
Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F
                                                BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F
                                                SHUNRANET\markk:(OI)(CI)F


Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft>attrib Crypto
   S    I    Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto

Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft>dir Crypto
 Le volume dans le lecteur Z s'appelle System
 Le numéro de série du volume est CE62-FA00

 Répertoire de Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto

Fichier introuvable

Z:\Users\markk\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft>

How is it possible that I have full control of this folder, but still cannot browse its contents?

P.S.

I need to fix it, because this is why I suspect the following command fails:

Z:\>MakeCert.exe -r -ss my -n "CN=DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot, O=DO_NOT_TRUST, OU=Created by http://www.fiddler2.com" -sky signature -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 -h 1 -cy authority -a sha1 -m 120
Error: Can't create the key of the subject ('JoeSoft')
Failed

Z:\>

And I need this command to succeed in order to debug HTTPS traffic with Fiddler.

Any of the following goes as non interactive for me:

• Command line silent installation
• Script file
• Code (.NET, C, VB, whatever)

Thanks.

EDIT

I'd like to stress, that I wish to install the module responsible for the dynamic content compression. This is different from configuring the dynamic content compression after the respective module has already been installed.

Given:

• A VM running Windows 2008
• I am logged on there using my domain account (SHUNRANET\markk)
• I have added the "Create global objects" privilege to my domain account:
• The VM is restarted (I know logout/logon is enough, but I had to restart)
• I logon again using the same domain account. It seems still to have the privilege:
• I run some process and examine its Security properties using the Process Explorer. The account does not seem to have the privilege:

This is not an idle curiousity. I have a real problem, that without this privilege the named pipe WCF binding works neither on Windows 2008 nor on Windows 7! Here is an interesting discussion on this matter - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wcf/thread/b71cfd4d-3e7f-4d76-9561-1e6070414620.

Does anyone know how to make this work? Thanks.

EDIT

BTW, when I run the process elevated, everything is fine and the process explorer does display the privilege as expected:

But I do not want to run it elevated.

EDIT2

I equally welcome any solution. Be it configuration only or mixed with code.

EDIT3

I have posted the same question on MSDN forums and they have redirected me to this page - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;132958. I am yet to determine the relevance of it, but it looks promising.

Notice also that it is a completely coding solution that they propose, so whoever moved this post to the ServerFault - please reinstate it back in the StackOverflow.

The certificate store on my Win7 box is constantly hanging. Observe:

C:\>1.cmd

C:\>certutil -?   | findstr /i ping
  -ping             -- Ping Active Directory Certificate Services Request interface
  -pingadmin        -- Ping Active Directory Certificate Services Admin interface

C:\>set PROMPT=$P($t)$G

C:\(13:04:28.57)>certutil -ping
CertUtil: -ping command FAILED: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2)
CertUtil: The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\(13:04:58.68)>certutil -pingadmin

CertUtil: -pingadmin command FAILED: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2)
CertUtil: The system cannot find the file specified.

C:\(13:05:28.79)>set PROMPT=$P$G

C:\>

Explanations:

• The first command shows you that there are –ping and –pingadmin parameters to certutil
• Trying any ping parameter fails with 30 seconds timeout (the current time is seen in the prompt)

This is a serious problem. It screws all the secure communication in my app. If anyone knows how this can be fixed - please share.

Thanks.

P.S.

1.cmd is simply a batch of these commands:

certutil -? | findstr /i ping
set PROMPT=$P($t)$G
certutil -ping
certutil -pingadmin
set PROMPT=$P$G

EDIT1

I have succeeded to pin down the single windows API that causes the problem - DsGetDcName

According to the windbg, the certutil -ping invokes it like so:

PDOMAIN_CONTROLLER_INFO pdci;
DWORD ret = ::DsGetDcName(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, DS_DIRECTORY_SERVICE_PREFERRED, &pdci);

On my workstation it times out for 30 seconds and then returns error code 1355, which is ERROR_NO_SUCH_DOMAIN No domain controller is available for the specified domain or the domain does not exist.

On another machine, which is accidentally a windows server 2003, it returns almost immediately with the correct domain controller name inside the returned DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_INFO structure.

Now the question is what is missing on my workstation for that API to find the correct domain controller?

My C: drive is full. I wish to move the builds folder from the job to another location. I can cheat with the help of the JUNCTION utility to redirect the original builds folder, but I am interested to know if there is the Hudson way to do it right.

Thanks.