This symptom occurred all of a sudden with Nmap 7.80 and Windows 10 version 1909 (OS build 18363.836), where nmap tries to query using interface “eth0” : Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-06-30 11:28 Eastern Daylight Time dnet: Failed to open device eth0 QUITTING! It seems that latest Windows updates is involved in… Read More »
Having the following login error attempting to establish a RDP session to a Windows server or workstation? The requested session access is denied. The following behavior apply to your case: The user you are using is a part of the Remote Desktop Users group (or allowed to the RDP users) The user is a non-administrator… Read More »
Beside the iCloud service, iTunes is the way to go when you need to backup your Apple mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad. If you want to secure the backups taken by iTunes on your computer file system, this article will show you where it is stored on your macOS computer file system. Before… Read More »
If you have an Intel card and the necessary “Advanced Network Services (ANS)”, that is bundled with the Intel driver, you have the capability to manage VLans for your network interface with PowerShell. 1. Use the “ipconfig” command to find out the name of your adapter. Example :
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Ethernet0: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.1.50 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.1.1 |
In that case, our adapter name… Read More »
Experiencing the following behavior with RHEL/CentOS 7.2 and NFS? NFS folder mount hang and the following output can be observed in logs and dmesg : NFS: state manager: lease expired failed on NFSv4 server 0.0.0.0 with error 10082 NFS: nfs4_discover_server_trunking unhandled error -512. Exiting with error EIO nfsd: last server has exited, flushing export cache… Read More »
Beside the iCloud service, iTunes is the way to go when you need to backup your Apple mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad. If you want to secure the backups taken by iTunes on your computer file system, this article will show you where it is stored on your Windows computer file system. Before… Read More »
By design, Google Chrome cannot be started as root on Linux systems for security reason, which totally make sense. However, there might be some exceptions where it is required. Here is how to make it work. If you need to run it once or really occasionally, you may start it with the following command using… Read More »
Having some issues using the GCC compiler? The problem may show up under different circumstances, such as : – Invoking the GCC compiler trying to compile an application manually using “sudo ./configure”. In such case, an output similar as below will be shown :
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checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/path/to/some/source/folder': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables |
– Trying to upgrade outdated packages after updating MacPorts (which… Read More »
Since Windows 10 build 1803 from April 2018, the XPS Viewer is no longer included by default in that build of the operating system and has to be installed manually. Usually this is done by browsing to the applications and feature pane but sometimes cannot be found and installed this way. The quickest and most… Read More »
Under some rare circumstances, you may require to change the default route metric. The first way of doing should be through the “ifcfg-ethX” configuration file by adding the “METRIC=” statement. However it has been found to be inefficient for me and had to apply it using “ip route” as followed :
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ip route del default via <your.default.gateway.ip> dev <interface> proto static metric <current.metric> ip route add default via <your.default.gateway.ip> dev <interface> proto static metric <new.metric> |
Example :
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ip route del default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 proto static metric 100 ip route add default via 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 proto static metric 90 |