Windows

💻Remote Desktop: logon attempt failed ⛔

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Hi 👋

Have you ever tried to setup your Windows’s Remote Desktop functionality and failed with the following error message “logon attempt failed“, knowing that your credentials were correct and that you’re on the same Wi-Fi network with the computer you’re trying to access?

Well, I did.

Most of the solutions you’ll find on other blogs make you edit your Window’s registry, network settings and so on, which in my case was not needed, and it is somehow overkill.

Logging in with a password and my Microsoft account on the computer I wanted to setup Remote Desktop solved the issue.

What I had to do was to go in Settings > Accounts > Sign-in Options, disable Windows Hello PIN and all other sign in options, setup Password sign-in option and then relog on my PC.

That’s it.

Running Linux GUI Applications in Windows

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Hi 👋,

This is a quick tutorial on how to run Linux graphical interface application in Windows using X Server’s forwarding feature.

The first step is to download and install the VcXsrv Windows X Server on your 💻 Windows machine.

Then, start VcXsrv with the following configuration:

Ensure that VcXsrv is not blocked in Windows Firewall, it should be allowed in Public and Private networks.

You may also use more restrictive firewal settings as explained in /wsl-windows-toolbar-launcher#firewall-rules.

The next step is to configure your Linux box.

I’m using Ubuntu in WSL 2.0 and pasting the following code into ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc does the trick for me. Feel free to upvote the author on SO.

# X11
HOST_IP=$(host `hostname` | grep -oP '(\s)\d+(\.\d+){3}' | tail -1 | awk '{ print $NF }' | tr -d '\r')
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
export DISPLAY=$HOST_IP:0.0
export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1
export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:$HOST_IP

After that’s done, if VcXsrv is running, you should be able to open Linux GUI apps from your Terminal.

Thanks for reading! 🍺

fzf – A command-line fuzzy finder 🌸

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Hi 👋,

fzf is a command line tool that can be used to fuzzy search files, history, and command outputs. Check out the Github repository.

This is a tool that I wish I’ve knew about earlier in my career, and for this reason I decided to blog about it.

You can also set key bindings; some popular ones are:

CTRL-T – Paste the selected files and directories onto the command-line

CTRL-R – Paste the selected command from history onto the command-line

ALT-C – cd into the selected directory

If you’re on Linux and want to try it, then installing it using Git is straight forward and it also sets up your shell and key bindings.

On Windows, to enable the key bindings you can install the PSFzf module by running Install-Module PSFzf in an admin Powershell.

Edit your $PROFILE file and add the following items:

Remove-PSReadlineKeyHandler 'Ctrl+r'
Remove-PSReadlineKeyHandler 'Ctrl+t'
Import-Module PSFzf

Thanks for reading! 🍻

How to use Windows 10’s Wireless Display feature

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Hi,

In this article I will show you how to use your Windows 10’s wireless display feature in order to use your Laptop/Xbox as a wireless display.

Initial Setup

First things first let’s enable network discoverability on both PCs. Open up Control Panel, go to Network and Internet, next Network and Sharing Center and click on Change advanced sharing settings

Then expand the Private tab and use the same settings as I do, only enable File sharing if you need it.

Turning on file and printer sharing is optional.

Now that this is done we want to mark our house’s Wi-Fi network as Private, this way Windows will trust it and network discovery will be enabled.

Note: When connecting to public networks it’s a good idea to mark them as public and have network discovery off, attackers may use this feature for malicious purposes.

To mark your network as Private type Network Status in the search box, click Properties and make sure that Private is selected.

That’s it! 🎉🎉

Projecting to this PC

Open up search and type Projection Settings, you’ll notice a message prompting you to install the Wireless Display optional Windows feature, click that link and type “Display” then install it.

You can leave the settings as they are, it means that your devices can only project when you open the Connect application on your PC or the Wireless Display application on your Xbox.

Click Launch the Connect app… on your Laptop to start projecting from your PC.

Your laptop should now appear as a Wireless Display when trying to Project from a PC on the same network.

Bonus: Xbox

You can project from your Windows computers on your Xbox by installing the Wireless Display application and launching it. The devices should be connected on the same network and network discovery should be on.

That’s it, thanks for reading!

If you want me to write about something, let me know! 🙂