Vmware on ubuntu 9.10

I just installed VMware on my ubuntu 9.10.
I am going to run a Windows 2k3 server with MS SQL 2008 dev on it.
I am not using mySQL because im studying the MS one in school. But maby after this course I'll try installing mySQL.
Here is a link to the install help page.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html

Office 2010 - Ubuntu 9.10

I just got this link for Office 2010 public beta. Tomorrow i am going to try installing it on Linux with Crossover.
Get Office 2010 here!

A little bit of bypass.

I just remembered a page called slashdot. I used to read it about 5-6 years ago and i finally found my way back. One thing that caught my eye was an article about a vaunerbility in the linux kernel. Its a bug that gives the exploiter full access to your computer. You can read more about it here.

If you want to see a full list of witch Kernel Versions are vulnerable you can check out securityfocus.
And if you dont know how to check your kernel version you can type uname -r in the console.

3 at night and my desktop starts to look good

I just found a few sweet things to modify my desktop with. i got a bit more of a mac feeling to it. :D The bar on the bottom is called cairo dock and it was easy to install after i followed this guide.
Here is a small peak of how it looks so far.

Ubuntu is on my laptop!

Ok so i decided to try it out! Ubuntu as a desktop platform.
So far so good. I managed to install Flash 10 on 64bit platform. It was not so hard tho.
I think i tried it a year ago with 8.10 and i couldn't get it to work. Now i just downloaded a .tar.gz file containing a .so file that i put in ~/.mozilla/addons and it started working right away after firefox restart.

I installed a nice firefox blogg addon to. It is called ScribeFire. It lets me connect to all my blogs. It's perfect.

creating FTP server of your Ubuntu machine.

Since i want to have a Web-server on my machine i am going to install a FTP server on it so it will be easier for people to upload material for their website. I looked around on the net and found proFTPD server. It will do for now but i later on I want encrypted traffic for safety. I found a pretty nice guide how to set up this server on this page. LINK

I added users with a command called useradd. Pretty easy to use and you will find some nice howtos for adding users and groups on this site. LINK
Dont forget to add -m so home directory is created.
To add password to user you just write
passwd (username)

Webmin

Since i like graphics and stuff like that i want to have a little bit easyer to administrate my ubuntu server. By using webmin you get a web interface where you can controll almost evrything.
You can look in logs and configs. You can even change configs and mount disks in Webmin.

To install webmin i used the onlyubuntu blog that has written a good howto for ubuntu users.

There is one thing i changed tho and its the wget path

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.340_all.deb

is old so i just changed the numbers to the latest version

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.490_all.deb

Firewall on Ubuntu

Now i fiugred i need a firewall for my Ubuntu Machine. Since you can never be to safe when securing your network. But when i think about it i dont have any ports open.

Even so i am going to enable the built in Firewall in Ubuntu that is called Uncomplicated Firewall. I dont realy know if you can call it a firewall since it uses netfilter. Its more like a easyer way to set up IPtabels rules.



Check out this page if you want to know more.

Morning come with updates and Apt-get

I was just a little bit curious about new updates and installed packages on my system.
Since ive bin installing a few packages through apt-get i wanted to list all the packages so i would know witch ones i had.
I found this apt howto on debians site and found theese commands.

installs new packages.
apt-get install

Update/Upgrade all packages
apt-get upgrade

clean up the local repositories
apt-get clean and autoclean

find packages
apt-cache search

update repository list
apt-get update

Trying to install iFolder on Ubuntu

I am trying to get iFolder to work on Ubuntu. Ive almost done it through this guide.
All tho i have no clue what the admin pass is yet ;D

Check out more on this site to get the guide to iFolder.

Mounting devices permanently

I have a 500gb harddrive that i am going to mount to /mnt/share

first i need to create the partition and format it.
fdisk /dev/sdb
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb
after doing this i need to get the UUID for the drive.
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
then i edit /etc/fstab and add:

UUID=theUUIDonTHEpartitionYOUwantTOmount /mount/path filesystem defaults 0 0

or in my case

UUID=bf40fffa-a352-4188-8b6d-293be3ef029b /mnt/share ext3 defaults 0 0

After this i changed the owner to my main user name and chmod to 750

chown -R username:username /mnt/share

chmod -R 750 /mnt/share/

Maby i am going to change the chmod later on.

After evrything was set i checked the mount table with df command.

Ubuntu 9.10 / Putty and Networking restart FAIL

I have changed the eth1 network adapter to static by editing the /etc/network/interfaces file.

When i am trying to restart the networking service it does not work. Trying with two commands but still it's failing. I need to check this out. It worked well in 9.4 but seems to be something weird with it in 9.10. When i am trying the service networking restart command i get a message
restart: Unknown instance

After a while i lost connection to the machine. I could not reconnect or ping to it so i had to connect a screen and keyboard to it. Now when i pulled the plug to the machine and rebooted it that way it had changed IP. Its most likely cause i saved the /etc/network/interfaces file to get the right IP i wanted. And that file is loaded in the start of ubuntu.

However i tried the /etc/init.d/networking restart command and it worked here. but the
service networking restart command did not work.

Seems pretty weird that the shortcut command does not work. Have they removed it? I loved that command

Installing SSH to remote Ubuntu 9.10 server

Now i have installed Ubuntu server 9.10 and i am ready to start configuring it. Since i don't have any computer screen or keyboard connected to the server i want to be able to remote it with SSH.

So before i put it in my closet i am going to configure SSH.
I start with installing openssh server on it with
Since I am going to use the root account for a while now i am going to start a Root shell instead of wighting sudo all the time.
sudo -i
then i install the server
apt-get install openssh-server


After the install was complete i configured the sshd_config file under /etc/ssh
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
then i used 'i' to input text to the document
PermitRootLogin NO
AllowUsers (Username), (username)


After i made the changes i saved and quit :wq! to save and quit in vi.
after this i just restarted ssh and the server was ready to be put in the closet.
service ssh restart

ext3 or ext4 Filesystem?

I was first thinking about using the new ext4 filesystem but since im lasy and it seems like Ext4 isnt stabel yet so ill stick with the ext3.

- Problems with ext4 lock-ups when deleting files.

This is kind of bad thing since I'm going to use it as file server. Witch means downloading, deleting, editing, moving files.

- Switching to ext4 needs some grub configuration

- possible data-loss resizing ex4

I dont think im going to resize my drives to often but maby its gonna happen since i dont know how big partitions i want on different mount points.

Link: 1,2

Ubuntu 9.10 Install

I'm installing Ubuntu 9.10 at the moment. There has not bin any problems so far. While writing this I am going to partitionate the harddrive. I got a 50gb harddrive that im going to use for the root system. Im not that into making 5 different partitions. My plan is tho to partitionate my 500gb harddrive for www folder, share folder, torrentfolder, ftp folder and /home/.

The damn installation fails at 43% it says "Starting up the partitioner" "Scanning disks..." I hope its just because the 500gb disk is quite big and needs some scanning. Ah now it continues.
After install I am going to install the SSH and hide the damn thing behind the couch. Optiplex GX270 isnt that beautiful. :/

Beginning of things

Welcome to my linux project page. This project is about creating a home fileserver. I want to have access to all my fiels wherever i am. That means desktop, laptop, school, friendsplace or maby even browse them on my phone.

I am going to use a P4 2,8ghz 1gb ram, 500gb computer and I am going to run Ubuntu Server 9.10 on it.