Not having source access to Windows it’s difficult to say anything that isn’t speculation. That disclaimer aside, here’s what I’ve been able to glean by reading up on this: UAC creates two security tokens on logon: the elevated token containing the user’s full group memberships, and the restricted token which has membership of the “Administrators” … Read more
I’d almost certainly suggest using /usr/local. Globally accessible user scripts can be placed in /usr/local/bin. Small amounts of associated data could also go into bin. Or you may wish to separate out the data into /usr/local/var or /usr/local/share. By doing this you’ll be quite sure that anyone FHS familar will be able to locate them … Read more
Welcome welcome welcome to the world of the Internet in Australia. Even in our largest population center, we can struggle to get 3Mbps downstream on a business-class ADSL2+ connection. Cable penetration is poor in residential areas, and even worse in commercial so unless you’re fortunate you can’t get cable internet. And because we’re such a … Read more
The DSC Local Configuration Manager runs as the local SYSTEM account, not your user account. It therefore won’t be able to access network resources unless it is given explicit permissions. There are two possible situations. Either the share is on the same machine as the DSC configuration is being applied to (let’s call this machine … Read more
I was able to get a rudimentary anonymous share going by setting the share and filesystem permissions to: Everyone (full control) Guests (full control) ANONYMOUS LOGON (full control) After that, in the Local Security Policy under Local Policies > Security Options I had to modify Network access: Shares that can be accessed anonymously by adding … Read more
It works! On Windows by default only administrators can create symlinks. When I start VirtualBox as administrator, I can create symlinks without any problems. In order to be able to create symlinks without starting the VB as admin, you need to set this permission for your user/usergroup. Here is a short how-to. The only problem … Read more
The manual page flock(2) had been out of date for a long time, but has since been updated to say (emphasis mine): Since Linux 2.6.12, NFS clients support flock() locks by emulating them as byte-range locks on the entire file. This means that fcntl(2) and flock() locks do interact with one another over NFS. Since … Read more
This was the key option to set to resolve this issue: [global] map to guest = bad user
I found the answer to my own query, and here it is: Theory: This can be found at this Microsoft knowledgebase article which deals with the ways to enable Microsoft file sharing SMB. The below matter is of relevance: The following ports are associated with file sharing and server message block (SMB) communications: Microsoft file … Read more
As I said on this (almost) identical question: Are you sure this is really what you want to do? There’s a very good article on why this is a bad bad bad idea over at Joel on Software (see point #3)… The concluding statement is: Conclusion: the next time someone tries to sell you a … Read more