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I have a nfs4 server where the uids of two users are flipped against the client. (Both machines are running debian trixie) server name=jupiter karl 1000 alice 2001 bob 3001 client name=saturn ...
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I have a Linux server that uses Samba to share a 2TB NTFS drive (which was formerly in an old Windows server) on my home network. It acts as a file server, and the files are accessed by three home PCs ...
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I am using Linux Mint and my workmates are using Windows. We've got a local, shared server (also Linux) for documentation files and a weird thing happened yesterday: a windows user created a file (....
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I recently setup an Arch Linux server running an FTPS vsftpd server, I am more or less new to this field, especially with this program so I'm sorry if I may come off as ignorant My issue is that I ...
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I have been managing a small local Linux cluster for my lab, consisting about two dozens of Ubuntu Linux servers - half of those are headless servers (rack/tower), and the other half are used as ...
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I'm very new to the world of active directory, windows server etc., so I apologise if some of the questions I ask are a bit stupid, but I'll try and explain exactly what I want to do below, and my ...
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I am setting up a file server that uses Samba together with ZFS. I have configured Samba such that it shows the ZFS snapshots under "Previous Versions" in Windows; following is an excerpt of ...
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Situation: I want to reinstall a Homelab Server (Windows OS) as a linux-based Server Server | Purpose: Backup System (mostly offline) I currently have an HP Proliant Microserver N54 Turion II Neo N54l ...
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Debian 11, I have installed Logitech Media Server to use with Squeezebox player. Server is running on local IP Address: 192.168.10.xxx port 9000. I configured that address on my Squeezebox player, but ...
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I have installed ftp and sftp on my linux mint system, for wordpress file transfer I had to create new user account for ftp and sftp on my system during the installation process. Is it possible to run ...
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I am managing multiple GPU servers in our lab, which are mainly used for deep learning tasks. We would like these machines to share the same file system, so it is easier to switch between them. ...
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I have an old server which is running Ubuntu Linux 16.04 in a lab environment. It is not not possible to upgrade to the new Ubuntu version due to hardware capacity. I decided to keep it and us it as ...
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I want to copy a number of files from a distant server to local computer, such that the total size of the files does not exceed certain limit, as I do not locally have enough disk space; and the files ...
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I am trying to transfer files between my file server and raspberry pi, I can't figure out why this doesn't work When I run this in the terminal it works: scp "/home/testfile.txt" [email protected]....
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I have a small microserver at home that's several years old (HP Proliant Gen8, Intel Celeron G1610T). I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it, set up RAID on 2 large disks with mdadm, and since then I've used ...
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I am an novice to servers and RAID arrays, but I am trying to restore a raid 5 array that has recently started to have problems with mounting onto our server. Full disclosure, I was not the one who ...
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I plugged Ethernet to Debian server running as a Virtual Machine on my laptop through VMware Workstation. The cable, router and modem are perfectly working but I can't connect and I don't get an IP ...
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I'm studying LDAP and in my company there is an Active Directory Server. In my workstation is installed Linux Mint. I try to show the context that arise my question: open a new window for browsing ...
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I'm trying to get to the bottom of an issue with my home server which keeps freezing after different periods of time (ranging from 3 - 7 days). It's currently running Ubuntu server: Distributor ID: ...
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I am in the process of small computing cluster assembly. It will run Ubuntu/Slurm for job scheduling. Only the head node will be connected to the Internet, all others will be accessible from the local ...
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I am assembling a simple computing cluster under Ubuntu 20.04 and Slurm as a job scheduler. The cluster will be primarily used for quantum-chemical calculations, so, as a rule, each job will run its ...
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I have been running this raid for a few months with new SSDs and today the raid stops working. After a restart the raid won't assemble again. All drive are fine and show as healty in SMART. I tried ...
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I work with a couple different nodejs live servers as part of my job and there seems to be some kind of leak within my tooling/workflow causing file watchers to accumulate over time until they hit the ...
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I have a vsftpd server running. Whenever I type in ls or anything in the ftp command line I enter in "passive mode" and then can not do anything. I need to have a working ftp so I can ...
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I have SSH to a server and have a syslog at usr/local. I am using the command tail -f syslog.log | grep fps and want to save the output of it to a file. I have tried to SCP as below % scp [email protected]....
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I am quite new to using rsync and I'm wondering if it is possible to rsync files across multiple user accounts on a single PC? For the computers I want to apply the rsync command to, each user has to ...
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I am trying to create some mount points between two Debian 10 machines using NFS. On the server I have this information in my /etc/exports file: /home 10.13.38.184(rw,sync,no_root_squash,...
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I am creating (on a personal local server) a git server where I will upload all my projects inside. The structure will be as follows: myprojects dir_project1 dir_project2 .... Now I'm ...
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I want to let a friend to download a file from my mac. Just one file. Is there a way to expose a specific local file from my ubuntu or mac so that my friend could just enter my IP and port in a ...
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For research purposes, I use the University server. The server login is a two-step process. First, I type ssh -p 44 [email protected] (Altered for security reason) Then the password is ...
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I am connected to my university computer using SSH as follows : sudo ssh [email protected] However once connected, I'm not able to download any file on the server using wget like this : server_user@...
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I am connected to a remote machine ( server1 ). On server1 I want to make a script that is copying & renaming some files that have a specific size but to rename them only after they are ...
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Need a help trying to get a question I couldn't find anywhere, and most solutions were outdated. Is there a CLI-only solution to move partitions between the same disk? "parted" used to have a ...
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Is there a way to transfer files using scp but not all of them, only the subset which already exists in the destination folder? p.s. all the files have the same extrension (*.JPG), if that matters ...
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I have recently purchased a 2014 Mac Mini to use as a personal file server among other small server tasks. The main purpose of the device is for me to be able to back up files over the network. ...
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I am trying to setup a RaspberryPi as a Plex Media Server. The server is setup and running. I can access it via the web interface. I want my media files in the directory /mnt/sda/will/plex. This is ...
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Tried it many times but never get the SMB sharing right on Unix. A minimal Debian file server, no GUI, just SSH... I always thought you set all the permissions in SMB and just found out you do it in ...
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So, I am having an issue where my Ubuntu Server (v18.04.3) no longer wants to connect to the internet. It was working fine before I took out my gpu to sell. I have googled to my hearts content and ...
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1) I run SSH session on the remote client to get files from the server. 2) There is a server and it keeps a very broad directory structure. 3) I've got a list of thousands path-names to the files ...
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How do we configure a IPv6 host for access through its global IPv6 address? If that's what we do.This is a server running services for a small home LAN that I want to access when I'm away. I have ...
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I have set up a Ubuntu server at my home just to learn "stuff". I overdid a bit and have some spare room on my SSD. I am prepared to give a friend some of that space to make backups on my computer. He ...
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I have to find all directory paths with specific subfolders. The search pattern is as follows: find /foo/*/searched_folder/bar -maxdepth 0 -type d ̶I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶w̶e̶l̶l̶ ...
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I need your precious support and advices for a kind of setup for my home computing. So... I have two laptops and a desktop that I use same (or different) times. Every computer has a different distro (...
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I'm searching for a ftp server or any idea to achieve hiding folder from others when somebody is working in it. For example: I have 3 folders: A B C when I working in A, anybody who is also connected ...
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On my main linux machine, I usually upgrade my packages pretty much without thinking about it and in the rare event that I get a compatibility issue, I solve it afterwards. I always have backups of ...
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Preface to my Situation and Motivation I am trying to familiarize myself with Ubuntu Server edition as I set up a home server. I am setting up a small virtual network with a hypervisor for ...
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I'm running a Raspberry pi with HypriotOS. I want to be able to administer simple tasks via a GUI internal and remotely( mostly directory/ file sharing related) . I have docker installed and also a ...
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I've been using Winscp to transfer files back and forth, but for certain applications it would just be a lot simpler if I just had a "file" I could reference for the app to my web server without ...
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I have been researching about the security threats to a web server. It makes me want to secure my own on my Raspbian OS system. What are the list of things that are recommended or optional to install ...
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I have a custom NAS built from a CentOS 6.5 baseline. I need the storage of this NAS to be accessible via its USB port. I cannot use the network connection. My cell phone can do this, there has to ...
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