Search:

Type: Posts; User: damo12; Keyword(s):

Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4

Search: Search took 0.04 seconds.

  1. [SOLVED] Re: Move All But 5 Newest Files When Filenames Have Sapces

    Thanks sisco311,

    That works great, makes perfect sense and I can adapt it as required.


    TheFu, thanks for your reply. Although I have been using Ubuntu for a number of years, I only use it...
  2. [SOLVED] Move All But 5 Newest Files When Filenames Have Sapces

    Hi,

    In our office we use a Sage accounting package on a Windows machine which automatically backs up to a share on a headless Ubuntu server. The filename of each backup is: "SageAccts Company...
  3. Replies
    10
    Views
    11

    [SOLVED] Re: Problems Unmounting Drives from Cron

    Hi,

    Just want to say that this is now working fine. I had a few issues but that was due to typing errors on my side.

    Thanks again for all of your help
  4. Replies
    10
    Views
    11

    [SOLVED] Re: Problems Unmounting Drives from Cron

    The backups ran last night without an issue however the drives remained mounted. The return codes on the log were:

    Unmount USB Media Backup return code: 0Unmount USB Server Backup return code:...
  5. Replies
    10
    Views
    11

    [SOLVED] Re: Problems Unmounting Drives from Cron

    Thanks LHammonds,

    The drives will mount and dismount repeatedly without any problems when I run the commands through PuTTY.

    Hopefully the logs will point me in the right direction but with...
  6. Replies
    10
    Views
    11

    [SOLVED] Re: Problems Unmounting Drives from Cron

    Thanks SeijiSensei and LHammonds,

    I have added the "grep" line to the backup and changed the USB backup day meaning that all will backups will run tonight.

    I have also amended the "umount" to...
  7. Replies
    10
    Views
    11

    [SOLVED] Re: Problems Unmounting Drives from Cron

    Hi LHammonds,

    Thank you for your suggestions. I'll amend my code accordingly. I have no training in coding so the code is formed from forums and Google searches.

    I'm quite sure that the...
  8. Replies
    10
    Views
    11

    [SOLVED] Problems Unmounting Drives from Cron

    Hi,

    Overnight I run a bash script which carried out a number of backups to internal drives and Google Drive (using Rclone) and once each week to external USB drives.

    The script works perfectly...
  9. Re: Need suggestions to choose cloud software

    Once the remote machine has connected to the server through the VPN, you need to map a network drive to the server share in pretty much the same way that you would if it was on the same physical...
  10. Re: Need suggestions to choose cloud software

    I have a similar configuration at work. I run OpenVPN on the server with a separate connection profile for each user. Once they have logged in, they can only access their folder. The folder access...
  11. Random Transport endpoint is not connected Message

    Hi,

    I have recently replaced our server and have installed a clean build of Ubuntu Server 16.04 from a USB pen drive. The server is used as a file server set up with two additional hard drives...
  12. Random Transport endpoint is not connected Message

    Hi,

    I have recently replaced our server and have installed a clean build of Ubuntu Server 16.04 from a USB pen drive. The server is used as a file server set up with two additional hard drives...
  13. [SOLVED] Re: Where to Store a Shared File on the Boot Disc

    Thanks darkod,

    That all makes perfect sense. With regards to storage space, this should not be an issue. The current hard drive is 160Gb with about 8.5Gb actually in use. The SSD is 120Gb and...
  14. [SOLVED] Where to Store a Shared File on the Boot Disc

    I am in the process of updating our headless Ubuntu server and will be changing to a much faster and more powerful one.

    The server is used as a file server using Samba to share files with Windows...
  15. Re: Unable to Access New VM Through VNC: bind: Address already in use

    I have tried changing the xml file using the command:
    sudo virsh edit guestubuntu

    It now reads:
    <!--
    WARNING: THIS IS AN AUTO-GENERATED FILE. CHANGES TO IT ARE LIKELY TO BE
    OVERWRITTEN AND...
  16. Re: Unable to Access New VM Through VNC: bind: Address already in use

    Thanks KillerKelvUK

    I tried your suggestion but still had the same problem. Just to clarify, my initial command to tunnel the access was actually
    ssh host_server_username@hostserver -L...
  17. Unable to Access New VM Through VNC: bind: Address already in use

    Hi,

    I am trying to experiment with virtualization but have hit a stumbling block at pretty much the first hurdle.

    I am running a headless server running Ubuntu 16.04.1 which is accessed through...
  18. Re: Access Samba Share Without Password or Map to Guest = Bad User

    Thanks, I'll try adding "guest only = yes" and "guest ok = yes" to the shares and change the security to "share" tonight when I get home and report back
  19. Re: Access Samba Share Without Password or Map to Guest = Bad User

    Thanks, I'll try adding "guest only = yes" and "guest ok = yes" to the shares and change the security to "share" tonight when I get home and report back
  20. Re: Access Samba Share Without Password or Map to Guest = Bad User

    Thanks Darko,

    I did forget to mention that one of the computers is a laptop which for a short time had the same username and password as the password protected share. that could access any share...
  21. Re: Access Samba Share Without Password or Map to Guest = Bad User

    Hi volkswagner, I don't want to log in to the file server twice. In Samba 3, I could access the Guest share without logging on and then access the password share by logging on when I needed to...
  22. Access Samba Share Without Password or Map to Guest = Bad User

    Hi,

    I have a headless Ubuntu server currently running 14.04.05 which is accessed through Webmin and Putty.

    I have a number of Samba shares, some of which I would like to allow guest access to...
  23. Replies
    5
    Views
    2,421

    [SOLVED] Re: Error Processing Package Dovecot on Update

    Thanks for the help SeijiSensei, that worked perfectly.
  24. Replies
    5
    Views
    2,421

    [SOLVED] Re: Error Processing Package Dovecot on Update

    I tried running "sudo apt-get remove dovecot-* --purge" and received this output:

    ***************:~$ sudo apt-get remove dovecot-* --purge
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree...
  25. Replies
    5
    Views
    2,421

    [SOLVED] Error Processing Package Dovecot on Update

    Hi,

    I am running a headless server running Ubuntu 14.04.02 accessed through Putty and Webmin. This server originally ran 10.04 and was upgraded to 12.04 and finally 14.04.

    When I logged on I...
Results 1 to 25 of 108
Page 1 of 5 1 2 3 4