Fantastic info! I watched several of your videos and subscribed. I do a lot of development and just recently started using WSL (haven't really paid attention to it but instead used VMs). WSL is so much better and efficient for my purposes.
For some reason when we attept to run kex in seamless mode nothing happens. We don't get any errors, but it stops at "Enabling SL mode" without anything else happening. It should be noted where are running this within a KVM that we are RDPing into from a host machine, but everything else has worked so far. Both win and esm modes work as well, just not seamless
The issue with this is that the majority of the hacking tools in Kali require access to Network Manager, and direct access to hardware adapters and interfaces, of which it will not have access to because Win-Kex handles all of the connections virtually. You won't even be able to change Network Manager settings. So, no wireless hacks.
@@m1k3thirteen81 Because specific wireless attacks require specific adapters, and not every phone has that adapter, nor does every PC. Security specialists and hackers go out of their way to buy adapters that work with specific attacks, and hardly none of them work with your typical mobile phone. There are phones and other mobile devices made specifically for penetration testing, and there are attacks made specifically for certain phones. Just have to research what's what.
Nice video, but I have a few questions: #1. How do you get the GUI to launch automatically at startup? #2. How does one get the menu bar to appear? I had it but then it disappeared. #3. What good is loading all the WiFi pentesting tools if the networking portion of this is disabled?
Haven't done it on WSL before, I'd guess if you get your WiFi card into it that would be possible. But that's probably one of these use cases where running bare metal kali would make more sense.
I want to ask on my laptop it says the plugin "power manager plugin" unexpectedly The plugin restarted more than once in the last 60 seconds. If you press execute the panel Will try to restart the plugin otherwise it Will be permanently removed from the panel, How should I choose ?? Sir 🙏
Thanks for your awesome tutorial but i checked i cannot access my user directory and thinclient_drives mounted on kali. Any idea how to have access to my user directory ? Gives and error msg of "Transport endpoint is not connected" ?
On my one it says Enabling SL mode Waiting 100 seconds for desktop, giving up Saving Win Kex session Started Win Kex SL But bothing comes up on my screen 😫 Pls help me out man
In WSL2, 100% will not work (in the coming years, and maybe never at all) absolutely all wireless attacks (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) Hashcat and other programs using video cards to perform computations (brute force) low-level access to USB devices (for example, to make an image of a disk/flash drive for forensic research) background server applications
how the hell does this work when you change your ip in kali terminal? what does it do to windows ipconfig? im a bit confused about how the networking works? is it bridged or all seamlessly integrated? i ask because i am kinf od new to kali and i have stuffed around with stuff before and needed to reinstall it. if it happens on my windows computer there could be a real problem!!!
Fantastic info! I watched several of your videos and subscribed. I do a lot of development and just recently started using WSL (haven't really paid attention to it but instead used VMs). WSL is so much better and efficient for my purposes.
Thank you so much :)
For some reason when we attept to run kex in seamless mode nothing happens. We don't get any errors, but it stops at "Enabling SL mode" without anything else happening. It should be noted where are running this within a KVM that we are RDPing into from a host machine, but everything else has worked so far. Both win and esm modes work as well, just not seamless
Have you tried out other modes? Sometimes it's a bit bugged, and I needed to try out different modes to get it working.
same here
same here. did you get any answers ??
The issue with this is that the majority of the hacking tools in Kali require access to Network Manager, and direct access to hardware adapters and interfaces, of which it will not have access to because Win-Kex handles all of the connections virtually. You won't even be able to change Network Manager settings. So, no wireless hacks.
What would you do to fix this? Can’t you manage NetworkManager from the wsl install?
@@m1k3thirteen81 Because specific wireless attacks require specific adapters, and not every phone has that adapter, nor does every PC. Security specialists and hackers go out of their way to buy adapters that work with specific attacks, and hardly none of them work with your typical mobile phone. There are phones and other mobile devices made specifically for penetration testing, and there are attacks made specifically for certain phones. Just have to research what's what.
thanks bro , it worked finally
one the best . thanks man 👌
Welcome 👍
Thanks mate. I am installing to have a look.
i know it is quite off topic but does anybody know of a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?
you are really very good brother
Thanks u too 😁
Great video. What would you say are some of the advantages of this versus a VM?
Actually it is a VM. Might be a bit better integrated into the OS though
@@christianlempa i would imagine it has its own boat load of issues
Nice video, but I have a few questions:
#1. How do you get the GUI to launch automatically at startup?
#2. How does one get the menu bar to appear? I had it but then it disappeared.
#3. What good is loading all the WiFi pentesting tools if the networking portion of this is disabled?
Thanks for sharing
You are the man! This worked first try and was better than the networkchuck dude video
Thank you! That makes me happy :D
thanks lot of 2 moniter screen changes solution
cool
Awesome channel ! + 1 Sub
Thank you 😊
For me, the -s option doesn't work at all!
I think I've messed up with sound drivers/
not yet configured the open source drivers
Great sir ...
Can we do WiFi penetration testing or handshake capturing using WSL?
Haven't done it on WSL before, I'd guess if you get your WiFi card into it that would be possible. But that's probably one of these use cases where running bare metal kali would make more sense.
@@christianlempa always says no wireless extensions on running iwconfig .
Anyone know if using a USB wifi dongle will fix the issue of not being able to use wlan0 for wireshark or others?
Can I exit Kali Linux and go back to Windows?
Hey Christian this is the first video I have seen for a work around for the kex, unfortunately it did not work for me. any other suggestions?
Can you use KEX with Ubuntu?
Edit: Sorry I found the answer is no, but is there anything like this for Ubuntu not just GUI apps?
I have low disk space, so i changed where new apps install but, it didn't let me install kali linux on another disk.
Hey Christian can you make one playlist on shell scripting also please ?
Hey, that's a great suggestion, it will take some time until I can make some tutorials about it, but that's on my list :)
why become like this Unable to locate package kali-win-kex
hey my firefox is very laggy inside kali linux its speed is like 2g or even worse what can I do
Helpp me plss !!!
i use atlas os (win10 costume image) and i cant find the Virtual Machine Platform
I want to ask on my laptop it says the plugin "power manager plugin" unexpectedly The plugin restarted more than once in the last 60 seconds. If you press execute the panel Will try to restart the plugin otherwise it Will be permanently removed from the panel, How should I choose ?? Sir 🙏
No idea, why don't you join our Discord and share some details about your setup
Thanks for your awesome tutorial but i checked i cannot access my user directory and thinclient_drives mounted on kali. Any idea how to have access to my user directory ? Gives and error msg of "Transport endpoint is not connected" ?
Hm not really, have you checked out on our Discord for help?
@@christianlempa Not really. Thanks, I will check it out
dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. HOW DO I FIX THIS??
make sure you have wsl2
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has anyone gotten netcat listener to work even with netsh im sitill not getting responses
hey how do i run kex in windowed mode??? plase help im new at this ... i just love it
Well it should be described in the video ;) Maybe if you have specific questions you might check out our discord?
On my one it says
Enabling SL mode
Waiting 100 seconds for desktop, giving up
Saving Win Kex session
Started Win Kex SL
But bothing comes up on my screen 😫
Pls help me out man
Don't know what's going wrong on your end, you may check out the discord or official kali forum for help.
Okay ill try
Hey Mr.christian,why networking is disabled in my WSL2 kali distro ? How can I change this ? Please help me
Don't know, maybe you should ask in the develop forums of kali, there might be good articles as well
are there any other kali install sizes I can use?
I suggest using a live Kali image with persistence.
In WSL2, 100% will not work (in the coming years, and maybe never at all)
absolutely all wireless attacks (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth)
Hashcat and other programs using video cards to perform computations (brute force)
low-level access to USB devices (for example, to make an image of a disk/flash drive for forensic research)
background server applications
I don't do any of these
@@christianlempa then you should be good to go
What about reverse shell?
@@josemembreno4996 That should be fine
@@GodlyTank I’ve seen comments stating this isn’t possible yet on WSL2. I sure hope this is not true 🙂
Please, what software is that menu bar on your Windows desktop?
That's rainmeter, however I currently don't use it anymore :D
@@christianlempa thanks.
how the hell does this work when you change your ip in kali terminal? what does it do to windows ipconfig? im a bit confused about how the networking works? is it bridged or all seamlessly integrated? i ask because i am kinf od new to kali and i have stuffed around with stuff before and needed to reinstall it. if it happens on my windows computer there could be a real problem!!!
WSL is usually integrated with your host IP, so it just works, at least in my setup.
Can it also work on windows 7
No you need windows 10 for that
I didn't see kali linux screen I only see black
Check the suggested tips to fix connection with RDP/VNC, maybe you need to switch from vnc to rdp with the different commands.
@@christianlempa ty
You don't want to run kali Linux like this. You can easily be exploited yourself.
Not sure what you mean