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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Working with Windows

Over the last few months I have been "forced" (?) to work on(?) with (?) (perhaps despite?) windows. Overall Windows 10 isn't the clunky nightmare that Vista was, and is way better than Windows 7 too. Heck it even has workspaces finally!

Here are a few hacks I had to use to work out some common issues.

1. Machine does not respond to ping
Firewall rule is too strict. To change, go to:
Control Panel> Firewall
Advanced Setting
Inbound Rules:
Enable File and Printer Sharing Rules
2. Remote file access is not possible:
You need to be admin or otherwise have access to C:\ of the machine; then use smb://192.168.X.Y/C$ to access from Nautilus on another machine.

More hacks later. 

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