Windows 8 Full Screen in VirtualBox on Linux

 

Windows 8 does not support the VirtualBox display driver and the most current release of VirtualBox has a generic driver that supports some canned 1600x9 and 4x3 drivers but they were wrong for my laptop and not having full screen on Windows 8 make life hard for the charms and start menu etc. So to fix this follow these steps

Power off the the Windows 8 virtual machine.

Goto the VirtualBox console and right click ‘show in File Manager’. Note the name W8RP in my case, you need quotes if you had a space in the name.

Open a shell and go to the folder shown.

 

Find the resolution you want VirtualBox via the Linux settings menu, in my case 1600x900:

In the shell open from above enter the command:

vboxmanage setextradata W8RP CustomVideoMode1 1600x900x32

 

Start the VM, and you can select the custom resolution shown below.

Lovely.

 

Hat tip for the Windows version: http://www.mstechpages.com/2011/09/17/set-custom-resolution-in-virtualbox-for-windows-8/

 

Registry changes for the NetWare GINA in Windows XP…

 

Taking it old school…..

 

Enable the MSGINE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"GinaDLL"="MSGINA.DLL"

 

Enable the NWGINA

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"GinaDLL"="NWGINA.DLL"

 

Enable the NWGINA

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"GinaDLL"="NWGINA.DLL"

 

Enable the NWGINA Auto login

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\Network Provider\Initial Login]

"Login When NWGina Not Loaded"="no"

 

Disable the NWGINA Auto Login

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\Network Provider\Initial Login]

"Login When NWGina Not Loaded"="Yes"

 

Disable the NWGINA splash screen

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetwareWorkstation]

"NoLogoDisplay"=dword:00000001

 

Enable the NWGINA splash screen

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetwareWorkstation]

"NoLogoDisplay"=dword:00000000

 

Disable Novell Broadcast messages

Receive Broadcast Messages

Registry Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell\Broadcast

Registry Value: [dword] Mode

Default Value: 0

Range: 0, 1, 2 (0=All, 1=Server Only, 2=None)

Client Version: Implemented in NT Client versions 4.3 and later

Description: Tells the client which broadcast messages, if any, to receive. You can choose one of the following settings:

All (receive all broadcast messages), Server Only (receives broadcast messages sent by the server only), and None (do not receive any broadcast messages).

 

Disable Novell Broadcast messages

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\LDAP\Servers]

"0"="Scidmnw.domainName.net.local"

for /d %i in (*) do @cacls

 

To CACL the home directories to the existing owners

if you just moved the folders from say NetWare to Windows or a NAS that did not support the permissions (and the user names and home folder names match). This can be used on in the home drive folder (remember to use %% in batch files).

for /d %i in (*) do @cacls ".\%i" /t /e /c /g "domainName\%i":f

for /d %i in (*) do @cacls ".\%i" /t /e /c /g "domainName\Desktop Support":f

for /d %i in (*) do @cacls ".\%i" /t /e /c /g "domainName\Domain Admins":f

 

 

Via VBS – if you are adverse to DOS

' THIS must be run from the CURRENT home root DIR

dim DirName, skip

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(".\")

Set colSubfolders = objFolder.Subfolders

For Each objSubfolder in colSubfolders

'Wscript.Echo objSubfolder.Name, objSubfolder.Size

DirName = objSubfolder.Name

'Wscript.Echo objSubfolder.Name

'wscript.echo "cmd /c cacls " & objSubfolder.Name & " /t /e /c /g

domainName\" & objSubfolder.Name &":f"

command = "cmd /c cacls " & objSubfolder.Name & " /t /e /c /g

domainName\" & objSubfolder.Name &":f"

Return = WshShell.Run(command, 1, TRUE)

 

 

I use this all the time !

SCCM Client–No programs are available from a Terminal Services Sessions

 

User occasionally see this error when they try an run advertised programs with SCCM 2007 (on a Windows 7 PC, not a terminal server). This is generally just a timing issue due to rebooting and if needed you can train the users to wait, or go into the control panel and update the machine policy.

Here is the error.

This is a policy refresh.

After the SCCM policy refresh, the applications appear.

Users are back up and running… Joy

alternateBrowserExists: automation server…

There is a web server on site that throws this error on first connection:

An error has occurred in alternateBrowserExists: automation server can’t create object.

To resolve it I need to ENABLE the initialize and script active X for the Trusted Sites Zone (if it is a trusted site).