Bidirectional SMB File Sharing Between Linux and Windows 11
Share a Linux ~/project to Windows Explorer via Samba, and mount a Windows D:\project share back on Linux via CIFS — both over Tailscale.
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Two Hurdles in PowerShell Remoting: Double-Hop Authentication and the $using: Scope
Invoke-Command reaches the server but dies on the file share, and remote blocks can't see your variables. Both problems, both fixes.
Five Deadly Sins of PowerShell Comparison Operators
PowerShell comparison operators look familiar but behave like nothing in C# or Python: collections become filters, $null has a seating order, and -replace speaks regex.
ESXi Is Dead: Migrating Your Homelab to Proxmox VE
Broadcom killed the free ESXi license. How to move a homelab to Proxmox VE: installation, honest pros and cons, and VM migration without rebuilding everything.
Tailscale: Your Phone Is a Terminal
Put Tailscale on your Android phone and your home server is one tap away: SSH, web UIs, and dev previews from anywhere.
PowerShell Has No Return Values
return $x is just $x plus an exit. Everything your function did not swallow becomes the return value, and that breaks scripts.
try/catch Is Blind to Half Your Errors
try/catch only sees terminating errors. Non-terminating errors and native exit codes sail past it. The mechanism and the decision tree.
WSL Mirrored Networking and Tailscale Do Not Mix
Mirrored networking promised to expose WSL services on the tailnet. Instead it hid the Tailscale interface, then killed WSL networking entirely.
From WSL to the World: How This Blog Gets Published
The full publishing pipeline behind pwshtips.com: write in WSL, preview with local Hugo, push to GitHub, and let Cloudflare Pages deploy it live in under two minutes.
I Replaced Port Forwarding with Tailscale Across 4 Machines (and What Broke)
No open ports, no DDNS, no router config. How I built a private tailnet across a Windows laptop, a Fedora VM, an Oracle VPS, and an ephemeral cloud VM — and the failures that taught me how it really works.