WSL - mount error(13): Permission denied

Issue

Trying to mount a share located on a Windows 10 PC from Ubuntu WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)  running on Windows 11 machine:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.25/Data /mnt/WinShare -o username=lin,password=Some$Psw@55

The operation fails with the following error:

mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

I checked Windows Security logs on the target Windows 10 PC, and for every mount attempt, there was Event 4625 - Logon Failure - Unknown user name or bad password.
This made it clear that Ubuntu was connecting and communicating with the Windows 10 PC, but for some reason, Windows was not accepting login credentials.

Linux Ubuntu fails to boot - Problem loading UEFI:db X.509 certificate

Issue

Lenovo Ideapad laptop running Ubuntu fails to boot with the following error:

[1.858988] Problem loading UEFI:db X.509 certificate (-65)
BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3.3) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)

FreeDOS IntiDisk - Invalid Opcode

Issue

UBCD, Spinrite and other tools utilizing FreeDOS fail to boot on Dell OptiPlex 980 PC with the following error message:

IntiDisk
Invalid Opcode at 03A0 0000 0F03 0D44 7C44 0B63 6218 8F15 6C6D 0D44 001E 0000 0000

Recover data from faulty Synology NAS

Issue

Synology DiskStation 415+ NAS failed. Blue power button LED keeps blinking. Status LED is off. All 4 disk orange LEDs steady on (there are only 2 HDDs installed). Removing all hard drives doesn't change anything. Replacing RAM doesn't change anything either. All this indicated motherboard failure. Owner asked to recover data from hard drives.