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gcc 64 bit (oeffner)

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:26:57 GMT

Rodney, what's the status of this work you announced some time ago? Will Microsoft have updated binutils as well? Any plans for committing the code into the FSF? Do you know any other sources online that provides more information?

permission denied (new to SFU) (cgande1x)

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:38:39 GMT

I'm sure others have posted similar questions but I haven't been able to find out exactly what is causing this. When I ssh into any of my servers I can't do any commands even ls and cd tell me 'permission denied'. I can cd / though and then I am able t

Problems on 64-Bit system (Windows 2008 Server R2), programs hang unexpectingly (beachcoder)

Mon, 02 May 2011 08:47:32 GMT

Hello! I'm having a very curious problem with my Interix installation. This is my system configuration: Dell Server PET110Intel Xeon CPU X3430 @ 2.40 Ghz4 GB RAMWindows Server 2008 R2 Standard, 64-Bit, Service Pack 1

scp always "stalls" at 99% (mhovers)

Sun, 08 May 2011 20:17:31 GMT

I have a new SUA instalation and just about have everything working again. SSH works to login to other systems, but when I use scp to move files from a linux system ot my Vista laptop runnign SUA it always get to 99% then 'stalls'.

Windows 2003 to Smb problems (directory listing again) (gregoryg)

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:08:19 GMT

I'm using SFU 3.5 on Windows 2003 Server and I'm experiencing the following problems happening for Samba 3.0.6-2 mount coming from Linux ES 3u3 machine: 1) Directory listing incorrectly recognizes files as directories unless provided file name expli

Rodney, what is your view of the future? (jerker_back)

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:57:18 GMT

So, you are back Rodney!!? I think it would be very good if you could write some lines about your current views on interopsys, Interix and this site. What is the current situation for the site and how do you see the future? Are there any plans

bash install error: pkg_update: Cannot find package ''.: Undefined error: 0 (Michael_Young)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:14:32 GMT

I'm having some trouble adding bash to a brand new SFU installation & would appreciate some help. A little background. This is a very new Windows XP Pro-SP3 install on a Dell laptop. I was having problems with segmentation fault errors bash shell

Win7 Pro - SUPRISE! You can't get there from here! (jimbux)

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:32:55 GMT

I *JUST* installed my new win7 Pro on one of my machines. Using it for the first time, and I'm starting to go down the list of all the stuff I need to get running here (that I had running on my XP box before). So SUA is like the third thing I

Windows 7 missing the SUB feature (xlarrea)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:18:09 GMT

Hi all, My windows 7 installation misses the SUA feature. Is there a way I can install it anyway? Thanks

This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your product.. (mkanet)

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:12:12 GMT

I downloaded the "Utilities for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications" package from the link on created in my Windows 7 Ultra 64bit Start menu. I have using an Intel Quadcore Q6600 CPU. It pointed me to the Vista / Server 2008 Utilities and SDK Subsyst

/usr/bin/env python - unlock the mystery please. (jimbux)

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:02:59 GMT

How do I get "/usr/bin/env python" to work given that I don't have the sua python-current package installed (assuming it would work if I did have it installed).* However, I do have python 2.7 installed in "C:/Python27" (from www.python.org).

rsh with runwin32 (johnzhao)

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:20:17 GMT

I am writing a rsh application, and need to call windows commend at a remote windows server with SFU installed. when I tried to do: rsh -l johnzhao my_remote_server runwin32 dir I got an error: doccmd: /bin/runwin32: /dev/fs/C/WINNT/system

Home directory not working properly (nemith)

Tue, 11 May 2010 12:04:23 GMT

First off, yes I have read the FAQ sections 3.08 and 3.09 :) I have my home directory set on my user via AD as a UNC path to a file server. I can verify this with net user /DOMAIN. bash-3.2$ net user bb2380

ssh local users can't logon on Windows Server 2008 R2 (beachcoder)

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:03:20 GMT

Hi folks, we have a serious problem that we can't login with local users (both Administrators) onto a freshly installed Windows 2008R2 Server running SUA (the installation package from "Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for UNIX-based Ap

R2 compatibility with 3.5 utils (DrPizza)

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:39:27 GMT

Using R2 RTM and the SDK package from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B4987E6-D960-49A2-BF52-D3FBD654254C&displaylang=en there seems to be a problem. I want to intall pkg so that I can use the packages from this site, but t

Error 66 when running Win32 console command from SSH session (mikelward)

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:43:16 GMT

Hi When trying to run a command such as "net", sometimes I get an error 66: $ net user $ echo $? 66 Other times it works fine. It happens whether I log in as Administrator or myself, a member of the Administrators gr

SUA on Vista Sp2 (sreyes27)

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:05:41 GMT

I had problems installing SUA on Vista Ultimate SP2. I attempted the following: 1. Turned on or enabled the Subsystem for Unix-based Applications 2. Rebooted Vista Ultimate 3. Attempted to install Utilities an

Virtues or vices of links (oeffner)

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:05:53 GMT

Since the release of Vista cmd.exe has had support for hard and symbolic links implemented through the mklink command. There's also something called junction points. It would seem that the links that can be created with mklink are not at all be

Emacs Crashes (gazuga)

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:59:08 GMT

I've recently installed SUA/SFU on a Win 2003 SP2 box. An issue I'm running into is that I can launch Emacs in its own X-Window, but as soon as I mouse over it or click on it or type in it, the window just disappears. This happens both when I

Identity Management for UNIX basic questions (tongar)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:21:58 GMT

Hi, I have some basic questions about using Identity Management for UNIX to interoperate with Active Directory. The situation is that several Linux servers need to use PAM to authenticate with an existing Active Directory. The servers wi