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Hotmail (Outlook) denied POP3 access from Gmail

Recently, my Gmail failed to access my hotmail via POP3:
Server denied POP3 access for the given username and password.
Please contact Microsoft's Support Team for more information on POP access.
Server returned error: "Authentication failure: unknown user name or bad password. [Error="ProxyNotAuthenticated" AuthResult=0 Proxy=KL1PR0201MB1655.apcprd02.prod.outlook.com:1995:SSL]"

It was working fine for a few years. Suddenly stopped working. I searched and found the reason: Microsoft turned off POP3 access on my account without any notification. So turning it back on solved the problem:
For more details, see here

Mount CIFS/SMB (Windows) Share on Linux

Install CIFS/Samba client

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Manual mount

  • sudo mount -t cifs -o domain=yourdomain,username=yourusername //your-cifs-server.your-domain.org/yourshare /mnt/yourshare

Auto mount

  • Create a credentials file at /etc/cifs-credentials
    domain=yourdomain
    username=yourusername
    password=yourpassword
      
  • Edit /etc/fstab as root (or sudo)
    //your-cifs-server.your-domain.org/yourshare /mnt/yourshare cifs credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials  0 0
      
  • sudo mount -a







See also

OMERO systemd units

  • Systemd unit for OMERO.server:
    cat /lib/systemd/system/omero.service
    [Unit]
    Description=OMERO Server
    Wants=remote-fs.target postgresql.service
    After=remote-fs.target postgresql.service
       
    [Service]
    Type=forking
    ExecStart=/etc/init.d/omero start
    ExecStop=/etc/init.d/omero stop
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    
  • Systemd unit for OMERO.web:
    cat /lib/systemd/system/omero-web.service
    [Unit]
    Description=OMERO web
    Wants=nginx.service omero.service
    After=nginx.service omero.service
       
    [Service]
    Type=forking
    ExecStart=/etc/init.d/omero-web start
    ExecStop=/etc/init.d/omero-web stop
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    

OMERO.web startup script /etc/init.d/omero-web

OMERO.server startup script /etc/init.d/omero