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ruwolf wrote:The uid is always a number, probably 1000 as you have mentioned it...

I used the number for UID, I was just stating from what user

I've tried a bunch of different ones. //10.101.242.21/alexandria /media/share/alexandria cifs username=userA,uid=userA,gid=1000,password=pwd,iocharset=utf8,users //10.101.242.21/alexandria /home/userB/mnt/alexandria cifs username=userA,password=pwd,user 0 0 //10.101.242.21/alexandria /media/share/al...

I have one Debian 9 machine that I run as a home server, mostly serving files over the network through samba. I've installed Debian 10 in my desktop which I ran windows on before without any problem connecting to my files on my homeserver. So when I try to mount the cifs shares on my homeserver in f...

Why not set the static IP with a MAC reservation on your router? Because many services on the server itself demands static ip to be set in the machine. Also, your gateway address is the same as your static IP, which ain't gonna work unless the machine actually *is* the gateway ;) That did it, I kno...

Does /etc/resolv.conf get deleted or its content get overwritten (to what?) ? I comment out all my settings in /etc/network/interfaces and wrote a config in /etc/resolv.conf so that the machine will get a dynamic IP from the dhcp server. resolv.conf stayed the same, my settings were still there aft...

For this to work, make sure you have the package "resolvconf" installed, and use `dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf` to ensure automatically management of /etc/resolv.conf. In this case, /etc/resolv.conf should be a symlink of /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf. Not entirely sure I'm doing this right....

steve_v wrote:Shrink how? Remove drives? IIRC it's possible within the same RAID level if you have sufficient redundancy, but going from, say, a RAID5 to a mirror is a teardown and rebuild.

Thank you for your answer, I'm referring to dropping a drive from maybe 5 to 4 drives in a raid5

peter_irich wrote:/etc/resolv.conf creates automatically by resolvconf from the same name package.
Try set dns-server in /etc/network/interfaces like:
dns-nameserver <ip>

This was one of the first things I tried to do but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

I'm wondering what methods are available if any there is to grow and shrink raid5 (or equivalent). In this new world of software raids the possibilities are much better than back in the days. I've been using lvm for my data drives on my debian jessie home server. Now I'm considering instead of havin...

If you are using a graphical desktop environment and NetworkManager, /etc/resolv.conf will be a symlink to /var/run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf and managed by NetworkManager. I did install gnome and it boots into it but I'm not using it. Will that be counted as using it and is the reason why setting...

I only use my debian home server sporadically and since I had some problems with my old installation I decided to install 9 on a new a drive. The first few steps I take when I make a new installation I install sudo, add my user to sudo group, set up fstab so that it mounts my drives. The third thing...

Novice here. bungled my boot when I tried to migrate from one drive to another drive, long story short, I moved my OS from one drive to another and it's contained in an LVM. It's the boot partitioned that got bungled and since it seems that I won't be able to salvage it it seems that creating a new ...

First off, I'm very novice and I'm stuck in a bind. I'm running debian 8 as a home server and my sdh drive started to get smart messages about failing drive so I thought I would migrate to a newer drive (sda) so during this process I believe I messed up my boot, I still don't know for sure because I...

GarryRicketson wrote:So, what version of Debian are you using ?

Sorry I forgot.
I'm on raspbian pixel,

I'm not very fluent in this world but I need some hands on help on making this work. issue: I have a raspberry pi running raspbian pixel. I will bring this on my travels to backup my video and photos. I will not bring keyboards or anything like that. The only interface I will have is (if I can get i...

I'm sure you can do it with cron but I'm sure there is a right way to do it with systemd

I'm sorry, but what You are saying just doesn't add up. You don't need a laptop for $1400 - You need f.e. an old DELL 6xx for max $50 and a new battery - it'll be more durable than that crap which is manufactured today, and nobody will even think about stealing it, because Your phone, camera, table...

Well, I'm getting suspicious -> You want to steal someones' data without being noticed. STOP. If I'm wrong, then please explain what's wrong with the laptop? Because it's one more thing that can be stolen and when you're backpacking through South East Asia I don't want to drag one more bulky thing ...

Why not just use a laptop? ...which has a bettery-backed PSU -> all problems solved. ;) Moreover, some/(most) of laptops can have 2 HDDs mounted, what allows to build a "portable, battery-backed Raid1 array, with built in screen and keyboard" :) Raid1 is far more secure solution, because ...

I will probably also have the root file system running in that way that it resembles how a live CD works so the system doesn't corrupt if I can't gracefully shut it down. This is impossible - that problem is currently resolved (in case of pendrives, or other removable media) by offering an option t...