session setup failed: NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED

While trying to browse the Windows Shares of my Virtualized Windows I ran accross following error:   Purely for reference, this is the last part of the ouput with debug level 10 To fix this, go to the Windows host and open the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). Go to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > …

The great switcharoo

A long time I have worked with Windows 8.1 as the host and Linux Mint 18 as the guest operating system on my laptop. Lately, the Windows host just served as shell for running Office 365, OneDrive and Outlook. Considering that it runs full disk encryption (the worst of its kind) and a bloaty anti-virus …

Mounting an Iomega Home Media Network Drive 2 disk directly under Linux

My Iomega Home Media Network Drive 2 was never a great NAS. On a regular base I could not find it in the network at all and lately it's just completely gone. Even though it gets an IP address I can hardly even PING it. So I took out the disk, attached it to a …

Flash won’t work in Google Chrome for Linux

I'm running Linux Mint with Google Chrome 59 and adbobe-flashplugin 1:20170613.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 installed on my system. Despite that fact the Chrome was configured to allow Flash (chrome://settings/content/flash) it still would not work. After some Google'ing I discovered that Google Chrome uses the Flash library which should be located at /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so but in my case it was …

Automating JMX calls using JMXTerm

On the project I'm currently working on, we have a lot of tasks which are exposed through JMX and which we use very often. Some tasks need to be executed on a daily base, some even more often. As we all know, repetitive task are the ones we should automate and so I did.   …