I had several directories of files on a NAS host that shared the directories using a ‘windows’ style SMB share. I wanted an Ubuntu server to mount these shares with read/write access. I want the mount to be done automatically at bootup. The NAS is already sharing these folders and… Continue reading
In this post I will cover. 1) Setting up a syslog server to log messages from local and remote sources. 2) Setup a GUI front end showing syslog items. I’ve done this on both Ubuntu Server 10.04 and 12.04. First we need to get some items loaded. We will load… Continue reading
One of my co-workers had the following error while trying to import a VMWare ESXi 5 VMDK file into KVM qcow2 format. # qemu-img convert -O qcow2 vmtest-disk1.vmdk vmtest.qcow2 qemu-img: error while reading sector 131072: Invalid argument This error seems to have been generated because the way ESXi 5 virtual… Continue reading
This is a quick and easy way to get a Tabbed list of Usernames and emails from a Windows Domain while on the domain controller. By using the dsget and dsquery commands, we can list users and then send the output to a file. dsquery user cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com -name * -limit… Continue reading
Now that I have a working Sickbeard installation and the media is being collected, the next step was to setup notifications so that I know when a download has completed. Sickbeard has support for “Notify my Android” so I decided to give it a shot. I’m posting the setup here… Continue reading
The goal here is to setup an automated system that check for new episodes of TV shows, download the episodes automatically, copy them to a central media PC, and rename them as needed. Disclaimer: This info is for educational purposes only. Don’t pirate stuff, kids. Newsgroups can be used to… Continue reading
This problem came for me recently. Several employees where trying to setup Android phone email clients to check mail on an Exchange 2010 mail server. They would constantly get the following message: “Remote Security Administration, The Server requires that you allow it to remotely control some security features of your… Continue reading
My Home DVR system seems to be built on a Busybox Linux install with the DVR running from that OS. The issue with my DVR is that the consumer/home dvr devices for under $500 seem to have issues with remote viewing. I have a system that works well enough… Continue reading
After a setup of Bind and DHCP, this section will let the DNS zone dynamically update when new DHCP clients get an IP lease. Reference the previous posts at Install DHCP Services on Ubuntu 10.04 Installing DNS Services on Ubuntu Server 1) Backup the Zone files cp /etc/bind/zones/* /var/lib/bind/ 2) … Continue reading
The goal here is simply to install DHCP Services so that the Ubuntu host will allocate IP addresses to clients on the network. Using this method allows more control over DHCP options handed out to the clients over most consumer based routers. I’ve done this on both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS… Continue reading
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