I can not run Windows apps without Internet - windows

My work computer doesn't have a network connection.
But I need to install specific appxs.
I installed Windows Terminal from .msixbundle file.
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 (WSL distro) from .appx file.
They were downloaded and moved to my pc from another pc with internet connection.
When I run one of them an error occurs:
We want to make sure this is you. User interaction is required for authentication.
Or
The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
What does it mean? What do I need to do in order to run those apps without internet connection?

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Delphi - Checklist for PAServer Connection (Mac OSX)

I have spent the better part of a day trying to connect to PAServer on MAC OSX from my Windows PC with no luck. I am not sure what I am missing.
I am using Delphi 10.2 Tokyo on Windows. Trying to connect to PAServer 19.0 on a Mac Mini running macOS Sierra (10.12.4) on which I already have XCode (v8.3.2) installed along with Command Line Tools.
Both the dev machine as well as the Mac Mini are connected to the same Wifi network. I even tried connecting both machines to a different network but with the same issue.
I get the same error message every time that the connection failed. I suspect that it has something to do with the network - where the 2 machines cannot see each other, but I don't know how I can confirm this or resolve it. I have tried to search on SO as well as online but have not found anything that has helped.
Has anyone seen this issue and overcome it? Is there a set of steps I can go thru to troubleshoot this? Any help or guidance would be most appreciated!
OK - I kept trying out different things and was able to solve this issue (one way to solve it I guess).
Because it seemed like it was network related, I tried first to create a hotspot with my phone and connected the dev machine and the Mac Mini to it. The PAServer connection worked.
So I looked for a way to do this via Windows. Here are the steps I followed:
Open Settings > Network & Internet (on Windows 10)
Go into Mobile Hotspot and select Wi-Fi in the Share my
Connection From dropdown
Set a Network name and Network password
Turn on Share my Internet connection with other devices
Now on the Mac, connect to the network name we set up in step 3 and enter the password that was set. Then start PAServer on the Mac. That's it!
Now when you connect from Delphi to PAServer, the connection succeeds.
Note: Interestingly, when I was not using the mobile hotspot method on Windows, the IP address on PAServer (and on Windows) was 10.xx.xx.xx. With the mobile hotspot, the IP address is 192.xx.xx.xx.
I just configured (today) a new macos sierra with paserver. yes it's painfull :(
don't use virtualbox (it's buggy and slow), but use instead VMware, it's work like a charm. it's much more easy to have only one computer to develop than 2. also you can copy/past the log or anythink else from macosx to windows (or vice-versa) in just one click. and you will not have any internet problem or anything else ...

Internet Explorer times out when using Windows 8.1 VM

When using my virtual machine, I'm trying to gain access to the Internet, but unable to get IE to start, when clicking the icon it doesn't react. I've done some research and a couple of hours troubleshooting, but no luck. It does appear to be a problem for some, but they don't have the exact same problem I do.
Here's what I've come across while troubleshooting:
1) OS is windows 8.1 32-bit, but my host machine is 64-bit, because of this there might be compatibility issues. Not much more on this though, no explanation on whether that is the problem at all.
2) My network settings could be wrong, but I'm attached to a bridged adapter, my IP's match for both VM and Host, and I can access the web when I use a web browser app (but the app that can't download anything, so I can't download google chrome or the necessary files I need to study).
3) Others say that the problem is Windows 8.1 itself. That VMs just don't work as they should like Windows 7.
I clicked to uninstall Windows explorer, but it seems it doesn't exist, and it doesn't have an icon on the home screen.
Could it be that the .iso I downloaded did not have IE included?
The original need for the VM was to test Docker containerisation for a report. Should I scrap the whole idea and try for Windows 7 64-bit instead? That's all I can do if I can't find a solution.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

How to create mac vps (virtual private server) and access it via browser

How to create mac vps (virtual private server) and log in to it via browser, I want to be able to create environment like http://www.macincloud.com/, i have os x server but not sure how to set it up so that it can be accessed via browser, reason i'm trying to do this is to be able to use xcode from windows machine over internet.
any help is much appreciate it
I'm not sure how OSX Server works, but I believe what you want to do can be completed using a VNC.
Here is a quick tutorial I found on youtube on how to create a VNC on your mac computer so that you can control it from another computer by logging into the VNC server.
You will not be able to use your browser to log in, so you will need to download a 3rd party application (tightVNC is mentioned in the video) to access your mac remotely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13vIi37TkCg
Hope this helps!
If you requirement is something that you want to access through browser means you can do it easily using Apache(web server) which is preinstalled in mac and host something there with plain html page or with simple php which is also preinstalled in mac.

Mac as dns server on local lan

I'm a web developer in an office, and I often have to let some other collegues to see the websites I'm working on.
On my mac, I've installed XAMPP and for every site I set up a virtual host, so for example mywebsite.local is available for me.
For my collegues what I do at the moment is, on their hosts file, point mywebsite.local to my Mac IP. Of course it's very annoying.
I was wondering if I could use, locally in my office, my mac as a DNS server for all my collegues, without editing everytime their hosts file.
So, if they looks for mywebsite.local, first they look if it's somehow mapped on my mac, and then they looks on a DNS server.
If they install Bonjour for Windows, mywebsite.local should automatically resolve to your computer.

Running XAMPP on Windows through VMWare Fusion on a MAC, how do I configure apache to use my shared folders (Z:) as the web root?

Environment:
Main platform: MAC OSX 10.6
Secondary platform via VMWare Fusion: Windows 7 64-bit
Background: I'm running MAMP Pro on the MAC side with a webroot at "/www". I need to test websites in IE thus requiring a Windows installation. I installed XAMPP on my Windows side and changed the apache root directory to "Z:\www", the location of my MAMP webroot which is a shared folder between MAC and Windows.
When I try to access a local site from windows (http://localhost/asite) I get a 403 Forbidden error:
Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
localhost
07/30/10 14:21:07
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1
What other configuration changes need to be made for this to work if it will work at all?
Thanks,
Chris
Thanks to those who responded. I did a little research on the types of network connections and here's how I resolved the issue without using XAMPP at all.
To recap, I'm running Win7 on my Mac via VMWare Fusion as a virtual machine. I have MAMP running a local web server on my Mac with a webroot at /www and I want to be able to also access the web server from browsers in Windows.
In short, I want to be able to go to http://localhost/mysite from Safari (Mac) or IE (Windows).
Changed my Fusion Network Adapter to Bridged, since I am working from a home office.
Refreshed my network connections using the ipconfig commands in the command prompt.
Edited my windows hosts file to reflect: 192.168.1.102 localhost
Done and done.
I hope someone else can find this useful.
Chris
Is there any specific reason you're trying to serve your site from XAMPP, rather than just MAMP? I worked in a similar environment a couple of years ago, and I simply set the virtual machine's networking type to NAT (so that the guest has a different IP from the host), and then pointed IE at the IP address of the host running MAMP.
Maybe I didn't quite understand your problem completely, but:
"I need to test websites in IE"
you don't need to setup a Web server to do that...
Keep using Apache on your Mac host and point IE from your Windows VM to the host machine IP, as peterjmag suggested.
Also, wasn't there a Mac version of IE?
Again, my apologies if i misunderstood you - I don't want to sound arrogant;)
"Z:\www ... a shared folder between MAC and Windows"
What's this - a network share? Do you get the same error if you use a local folder in your VM (eg: C:\www)?
Try mounting /www from your VM - go to it's settings > options tab > shared folders. Select Always Enabled. Click Add and browse to your /www host folder. This should make /www accessible in your VM Windows.
Finally, just in case: check Windows permissions on the www folder.
Hope that helps!

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