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I've been using Synology for years as a backup target for many clients and have never seen these kinds of errors. And from the looks of the screen capture, looks like you're experiencing problems across many disks. Wonder if there's some kind of underlying hardware problem unrelated to the disks.

@matteo-nunziati said in Creating a free SMB 3.0 file server on Hyper-V 2016. Part 1: Installation and configuration:

@oksana you should mention here that this is in violation of MS eula

It's clearly mentioned in the linked article.

@guyinpv You can plug the PC directly into the TV via HDMI (you'll want to make sure your video card also sends sound via the HDMI...not all do) but the noise is very quickly going to become annoying. It's hard to beat the silent Roku. Not to mention the Roku can take some stream and direct play them, relieving the stress from your PC for any transcoding work.

@scottalanmiller said in IT Quotes I Like:

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PICNIC

Problem in Chair NOT in computer

I just did a quick search of this thread, and we're missing the other classic!

PEBCAK

Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard

See Also: PEBKAC -- Problem Exists between Keyboard and Chair

Otherwise it is pronounced with an "S" sound.

The letter "c" followed by the letters "a", "o", or "u" is typically pronounced as a "hard" c (sounds like "k") such as in the word car, Carolina, curve, course...etc. To make the "c" sound like an "s" when it is followed by the letters "a", "o", or "u", you would typically need a cedilla under the "c". Rare exceptions to this are the common "facade" which was derived from the French word "façade" where the cedilla was eventually removed and pronunciation unchanged.

As with other English rules, this is generally the rule that applies most often, and since this isn't a typical word (acronym really), I believe the general rules would apply. So you could use PEBCAK

This is a new one. I'm not a RingCentral customer so this was easy to spot but I know some here may be customers. The VIEW FAX MESSAGE link points to "catalynetics[dot]com" and the GET STARTED link to "glip[dot]com"

This assumes you have already installed Ubuntu server on your VM. You're going to need at least 8GB memory. I realized this after I got an error with only 4GB assigned to the VM.

1. Go to https://www.alfresco.com/alfresco-community-download

2. Find the Linux download link and right-click and select "Copy link address"
   

3. Go back to your server and download Alfresco
   wget http://eu.dl.alfresco.com.s3.amazonaws.com/release/community/201707-build-00028/alfresco-community-installer-201707-linux-x64.bin

4. Create a directory for the installation
   sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/alfresco

5. You're going to need to add a few libraries (if you copy/paste, these should be single lines, the web page here may wrap longer lines)
   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:opencpn/opencpn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libfontconfig1 libsm6 libice6 libxrender1 libxt6 libcups2 opencpn libcairo2 ttf-mscorefonts-installer

6. Because you're installing MS Fonts, you'll have to accept the EULA
   
   

7. chmod and run
   chmod u+x alfresco-community-installer-201707-linux-x64.bin
sudo ./alfresco-community-installer-201707-linux-x64.bin

8. You'll get a warning about LibreOffice not being installed. Ignore, select "y" and continue.
   

9. Choose your language and press [ENTER]
   

10. Choose option 2 for Advanced Install at the next screen
    

11. Choose the following options for the next 9 selections

Java				– yes
PostgreSQL			– yes
LibreOffice			– yes
Alfresco Community Edition	- yes
Solr1				– no
Solr4				- yes
Alfresco Office Services	- yes
Web Quick Start			– yes
Google Docs Integration		– yes

12. When prompted for an installation folder, enter the folder path you created in step #4 above
    

13. For the next 8 selections, simply enter the default suggested values.

Database Server Parameters	= port 5432
Web Server domain		= 127.0.0.1
Tomcat Server Port		= 8080
Tomcat Shutdown Port		= 8005
Tomcat SSL Port			= 8443
Tomcat AJP Port			= 8009
LibreOffice Server Port		= 8100
Alfresco FTP Port		= 21

14. When prompted for an Admin password, choose one and enter it in each of the following 2 selections
    

15. When prompted to install Alfresco as a service, choose "y" and press [ENTER]
    

16. Proceed with installation
    

17. Select "n" to view Readme file and Launch Alfresco when prompted.

This might take a while. Even after the screen shows the server has started, accessing the web page may take a few minutes so be patient. To access the web page go to the IP address of your server in your favorite browser.
http://192.168.100.78:8080/share

To configure SSL using Nginx, create a new conf file for your new site (assuming Nginx is already installed). In my case, I am running it on a separate server. I am running Nginx on 192.168.100.77 and Alfresco is running on 192.168.100.78 so my conf file looks like this.

server {
   listen 80;
   server_name mydomain.com;
   return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
  listen 443 ssl http2;
  server_name mydomain.com;
  
  add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
  add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
  add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
  add_header Referrer-Policy strict-origin;
  ssl_stapling on;
  ssl_stapling_verify on;
  server_tokens off;

  ssl on;
  ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/privkey.pem;
  ssl_session_timeout 5m;
  ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
  ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
  ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
  ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
  ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem;
  proxy_cookie_path / "/; secure; HttpOnly";
  rewrite ^/$ /share;


    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
        proxy_pass https://192.168.100.78:8443;
        proxy_redirect off;

        # Socket.IO Support
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
   }
}

18. Test your Nginx conf file and if everything looks ok, restart Nginx
    sudo nginx -y
sudo systemctl restart nginx

One important thing to remember is that, and this is the one thing that stumped me for a bit and took some Googling to find, enabling SSL means that you must change the proxy_pass port number as well as protocol to "https" (change IP address as needed). I've removed domain name and site name in the attachment below.
proxy_pass https://192.168.100.78:8443;

According to an email I just received, CrashPlan will no longer be offering the Home backup plans anymore and will shift focus to business and enterprise customers.

http://blog.code42.com/data-protection-needs-diverge/

Guess it's time to look for other options.

@scottalanmiller said in Catastrophic network gear failure yesterday:

Check out these...

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch/

I'm a huge fan of these. Been running the ES-48-500W at home and at a number of clients and they've all just worked. Powerful features for the SMB and you seriously can;t go wrong for the price.

@dustinb3403 said in Virtualizing Your Cudatel Appliance:

@scottalanmiller said in Virtualizing Your Cudatel Appliance:

Go ahead, download FreePBX and start playing with it. You could have installed it while reading this article!

Any good installation guides here on ML?

@JaredBusch has a great series of posts for FreePBX here.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11805/freepbx-13-setup-guide

RDPGuard is the only solution that allows some kind of rate limiting functionality on RDP that I'm aware of. Any other solutions?

https://rdpguard.com/

I have a client's workgroup Windows 10 PC that is refusing to check for updates.

• The PC has been restarted numerous times.
• The "view installed update history" is blank even though there are updates installed as recently as March 15
• Have tried the troubleshooter to no avail
• Turned off AV and still won't check for updates
• The Windows license is properly activated (has been for over a year)
• No new software has been installed in months

I'm tapped out for answers and Google search results have yielded nothing that has worked. Anyone encounter this?

A client is using a marketing automation tool called Mautic. His website has the proper SSL certs via a Nginx proxy and Let's Encrypt. The marketing automation tool creates a landing page for his to have a double opt-in email. Problem is that, when presenting the landing page after someone clicks on the link to confirm their email address, there is one single resource that remains HTTP vs HTTPS. It's available via HTTPS (I've tested it) but for some reason, this tool is only adding the HTTP link for the javascript during webpage presentation.

Is there a way to use Nginx to force a rewrite of this single resource link? It is the only one that refuses to play. Here is what it looks like...

Currently (which breaks proper tracking because the script is blocked by most browsers):
<script src="http://sub.domain.com/mtc.js" async data-source="mautic"></script>

What I want:
<script src="https://sub.domain.com/mtc.js" async data-source="mautic"></script>

Is there a way I can rewrite that single resource URL? The Nginx config file already includes this return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; line which I thought would take care of it but there must be something happening during page render that is preventing the rewrite (unless I'm misunderstanding how this works).

If that can't happen, will setting up his DNS via Cloudflare handle this?

I wanted to move away from Azure for my ScreenConnect install for a while now. Azure is free with my MS Partner Network subscription but being free didn't justify the level of sucking from hosting that VM on Azure. So this morning I decided - bye bye Azure.

I didn't realize how easy the process was. I used something called Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer that allowed me to simply connect to Azure, find my blob storage and download the VHD locally. After that, change DNS records, update virtual host file and boom, ScreenConnect is online on the colo server.

Very cool utility for anyone looking to do this.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/

I have another web server instance still running on Azure that I'll likely be moving off there soon once I find the time.

As title says, I have a small client that wants to fully transition to Linux for desktop OS. There are currently 5 users but will be growing to around 30-32 users by end of year. No onsite servers and don't foresee the need for one either. They use Office 365 for mail and Nextcloud on Vultr for files.

I've started compiling a list of software they use and corresponding Linux alternatives. Here's my list so far. You'll notice that some don't list an alternative or have more than 1 shown. I'm interested in what this group prefers.

MS Office = OnlyOffice (because of its native use of pptx, xlsx, docx file types)
Desktop email = Evolution, Thunderbird? Sure they could simply use web mail but they do prefer the desktop client experience.
Notepad = Will likely suggest Nextcloud Notes?
Softphone = Linphone, Zoiper?
Notepad++ = Notepadqq, Atom?
MS Publisher = ???
Screen Capture = ???
Visio = Draw.io, Dia?
OneNote = ???

Appreciate everyone's thoughts on alternatives.

@scottalanmiller said in Errors Building Guacamole Server on Fedora 28:

@nashbrydges said in Errors Building Guacamole Server on Fedora 28:

@scottalanmiller said in Errors Building Guacamole Server on Fedora 28:

@nashbrydges said in Errors Building Guacamole Server on Fedora 28:

@scottalanmiller said in Errors Building Guacamole Server on Fedora 28:

@nashbrydges said in Errors Building Guacamole Server on Fedora 28:

@wrx7m said in Errors Building Guacamole Server on Fedora 28:

I have noticed that there are a quite a few threads on something not working properly on Fedora 28. I guess it is just that it seems to be the preferred OS and people are using it more than others.

Yeah there's a real love affair for Fedora here but in my case, when I couldn't get this running on Fedora and was able to get it working flawlessly on Ubuntu, guess what OS it's running on right now. Many guides for setting this up on Ubuntu out there.

Are there? I feel like I looked at the time and in order to get it working you have to drop to Ubuntu LTS, same as dropping to CentOS from Fedora. I thought Ubuntu was plagued by the current versions not working the same as Fedora/CentOS are.

Yeah, this is the guide that I used and was finally able to set this up.

https://chasewright.com/2017/08/01/guacamole-with-mysql-on-ubuntu/

Right, that's not "working on Ubuntu", that's "working on old Ubuntu". It works on "old Fedora", too. If we were willing to treat Fedora poorly, like we often are willing to treat Ubuntu, it would work equally.

I think people are often way more forgiving of Ubuntu that Fedora/CentOS and it makes it look like things work in one, just because the standards are lower.

If you actually read the post, there are instructions for getting it to work on newer Ubuntu. While I haven't bothered trying it out yet since I just don't have the time, I definitely plan on doing the install on 18.04 as soon as I can. I'm certainly no Linux expert so I'm hoping I can muddle through this on 18.04 but I have no doubt you'd have a much easier time.

That's where Fedora is. 28 works, but with lots of muddling through to replace the compiler. The issue is Guac doesn't work with modern compilers, so all modern systems are affected.

See, you're outside my realm of knowledge here which is why I come and hang out here for a while...to learn.

Should be an easy one to fix. Noticed HTTP doesn't auto-redirect to HTTPS.

@Sodium

So I was reading the link from this post when I noticed another interesting article at the bottom...

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/synology-diskstation-ds916-turbocharged-with-starwind-virtual-san

And continues for a 3 part series. Not something I would have thought about testing but certainly very interesting results.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/storage-ha-on-the-cheap-fixing-synology-diskstation-flaky-performance-with-starwind-free-part-2-log-structured-file-system

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/storage-ha-on-the-cheap-fixing-synology-diskstation-flaky-performance-with-starwind-free-part-3-failover-duration

@guyinpv As I mentioned, the installs are still relatively new but they are working flawlessly. The desktop sync clients haven't skipped a beat (can't say the same for OneDrive For Business desktop clients which I had to remove and reinstall a half dozen times because they always locked up), Easy to manage admin interface. Love the ability to autotag files that are uploaded. Built-in file access controls. Built-in retention (I've got it set to autotag for one user so that uploaded files are automatically deleted after 5 days). The built-in letsencrypt process (for Ubuntu) is the most painless way of managing and renewing SSL certs. Who cares that I have to run the renew script once every 3 months...it's literally a single line of code to renew.

You're looking for self-hosted file sharing and sync? This is exactly what this does.

You may also want to harden the web server.

@Sodium

For the TLDR