CentOS & HyperV just do not mix !

Cat and Dog angrySome months ago I’ve installed a guest CentOS 6.3 in Hyper-V vers. 6.0.6002 in Windows 2008 Standard Ed, without any Linux Integration Components (i’m lazy……).

Using yum I’ve installed a LAMP, and created a php-mysql website.

It seemed to work correctly… but after some days the websites stopped to work: I got the following errors in /var/log.

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'
rejecting i/o to offline device

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Windows: The Difference Between Everyone and Authenticated Users groups

A very important group !

A very important group !

Okay, yes, I admit it: I didn’t know in “depth” the difference between Everyone and Authenticated Users built-in on M$ Windows groups. Here is the result of my research about this argument.

Authenticated Users encompasses all users who have logged in with a username and password.
Everyone encompasses all users who have logged in with a password as well as built-in, non-password accounts such as Guest and SERVICE, LOCAL_SERVICE, NETWORK_SERVICE.
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