Hi,
due to some security issues (Wannacry) Windows administrators are going to disable the unsecure smb1 protocol.
mount.cifs is using smb1 by default. So when you tried to connect to a Windows machine where smb1 is disabled you get an error: mount error(112): Host is down.
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Hi,
when have opened a Remote Desktop Connection it sometimes happened that the clipboard stops working.
When you closing and reestablish the Remote Desktop Connection the clipboard functionally comes back.
But its also possible without closing the RDP Session:
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Hi,
short post after Summer vacation 🙂 A customer had the problem that he couldn’t install msxml4 sp3.
During installation the setup could not register type library C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msxml4.dll.
Continue reading Windows: Installation of msxml4 failed. Could not register type library for msxml4.dll
Hi,
a customer of mine has bought a new PC (Fujitsu Esprimo P956 E94+) with an 256GB SSD and 5TB Harddisk and he wants to use the SSD as accelerater (Write/Read cache) for the 5TB Disk.
Newer Intel Chipsets support such a configuration. It is called Smart Response Technology.
Continue reading Windows: Cannot activate Intels Smart Response Technology
Hi,
first post in 2015 🙂
msiexec offers the ability to extract all files included in an msi file to a specified folder by alter the TARGETDIR proberty of the msi package.
Syntax is
msiexec /a msifile.msi /qb TARGETDIR=D:\target
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