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I have currently setup a SOCKS5 proxy by creating a SSH Tunnel on a local Ubuntu server to a Linux based VPS. I use polipo as a small proxy to pass the requests through the SOCKS5 proxy (DNS...

I don't know if this thread is dead, but I wanted to chime in real quick with my experiences.

For the DNS the above is correct. You can do it manually through about:config in firefox and it will...

Thanks for all the advice.

Its funny, all of you mentioned all the avenues I looked at.

First of all, I started up Midnight Commander and bookmarked a website with some advice on how to use...

I would like to figure out an easy method to transfer files from a headless home media server to a USB external hard drive.

Normally I can mount the hard drive by SSHing into the server and then...

I agree on that, but depending on the situation this leaves me more flxible. I currently have 2 TB dedicated to my media files (thats only downloaded TV, Movies, etc.) and 500 GB for my datafiles.
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I ended up doing the following:

I purchased two 3 TB Drives and loaded them in LVM in Ubuntu server 12.04.

I then made logical partitions for the following

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/boot
/media/datafiles #...

Hey All,

I currently running an Ubuntu Home Media Server which responsibilities are:

Filesharing (mainly for videos which can be watched on iOS devices and XBMC hooked up two different TVs in...

Hmm, i tried that. Disconnected from DOMAIN no problem. Re-connect to domain, again no issue.

Final reboot, try to log on as a user of that domain onto the domain trust relationship issue.
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I am also having this issue. I have logged on as local admin to the machine with a problem. Unjoined and rejoined the domain, but the same issue arrises.

Any ideas how to fix?

Hi All,

I been running this config for a while and yesterday I stupidly did a sudo apt-get upgrade and now my windows 7 client machine cannot log in to the domain. I get the trust relationship...

I have an ion2 card with my lenovo q150. The newest version of ubuntu picked up everything alright. To get my digital sound for DTS and Dolby I had to add a custom device. Do a search for Lenovo...

Hey, thanks for taking the time to get this out to me. I actually was determined to get this done last night, so I figured it out. I make heavy use of the cpafter.sh script and the wput program. ...

Hey All,

I need help with a script to find new files and put copy them recursively in a directory and after its done, to log into an ftp and upload them.

For the new files aspect, I am using...

Dear all you experts,

I just got myself a Lenovo Q150 as a HTPC. Sound works just fine under gnome and in XBMC, but for the life of me I cannot get AC3 pass thru to work in XBMC.

I hear menu...

I basically just ran the command


sudo chmod -x /etc/init.d/twonkyserver

This disables the service on startup and twonky is out of your way. I wouldn't worry about the space taken up on the...

I have set exactly this up in my company. For the most part users can log in, a script can set their directories / printers, and you can have a Domain using OpenLDAP.

I didn't need all of the...

Hey All,

Wanted to post my experience with using Ubuntu to replace my windows SBS of 5 years.

First off, I love linux, have played with it for many years and have used it extensively at home as...

Alright,

So I went to the office today to completely redo my server. A little into, about a month back I purchased a new intel based server for my small business and decided to go the all linux...

Alright,

So I went to the office today to completely redo my server. A little into, about a month back I purchased a new intel based server for my small business and decided to go the all linux...

No I haven't... I think actually an older version of ubuntu (8.04) would work better. I feel the bios turns off the fakeraid, but ubuntu when it loads is loading the drivers.

What I did now was...

Ever get a solution for this?

Seems to me as if the system is configured for software raid thru mdadm, but somehow "fakeraid" the intel controller one, is turning on and mucking things up.

I am...

Yeah, if your using Windows then DMRAID is the way to go. My issue now is my Raid is totally corrupted because I disabled the raid cntroller in bios but Ubuntu still made a dmraid config using 4...

Okay, I figured out the issue with my server. I had a fakeraid installed onto the server but I had disabled the bios hardware controller. This in turn ruined the configuration. Anyways, thanks for...

Great answer, but I have a slight update on the situation.

I have a server which has a "fakeraid" intel controller, I originally intended to install Ubuntu 8.10 using mdadm software raid so I...

Hey All,

About a month ago I installed a new ubuntu intrepid server in my office. There are two issues I am having:

1. During bootup I always get jumped into recovery mode, one of my...