Tag Archives: arch linux

Sep
10
2011

Fixing write permissions for NFS Windows client

So after a recent Arch upgrade, Samba mysteriously stopped working, and I really wasn’t in the mood to troubleshoot what broke it. I have always disliked Samba (and CIFS as a whole), so was pleasantly surprised to learn an NFS client has been shipping with Windows for like, ever, now. After installing and configuring NFS in Arch [...]

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Apr
03
2011

SSH public key authentication on Windows 7 64-bit

So I’ve been struggling for the past 2+ hours trying to get something I’ve done a million times before to work in Windows 7 64-bit. Namely, public key passwordless authentication from a Windows SSH client to a Linux OpenSSH server. I need to have seamless logins without a password/passphrase because I’m using a headless VirtualBox [...]

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Dec
02
2009

Arch on coLinux

I’ve recently gotten tired of working in Cygwin‘s slow environment and was looking for something faster and more faithful to a true Unix system. I knew virtualization was an option, but didn’t want to sacrifice the accessibility and speed of working with a native application (yes, even in seamless mode). Enter coLinux: essentially a port [...]

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