Posts made by Mario Jakovina

@CCWTech Yes, post it here, so we can give you our feedback on you resume

@Pete-S said in Recommended storage setup for Proxmox VE homelab:

From what I can gather B120i is not a real RAID controller. It just a SATA HBA with LSI chipset. It needs OS software drivers to do RAID.
The lack of RAID5 and RAID6 kind of gives it away.

I created RAID0 array on B120i, and Proxmox installer still sees individual drives.
It seems like you're right - it is not real RAID controller.

Edit: After Proxmox install on it, system reports "unknown filesystem". I will try with "non-RAID" setup

@JaredBusch said in Recommended storage setup for Proxmox VE homelab:

I think these two statements are at odds with each other. 2TB is not as much as your think once you add images and docker creep (oh it is jsut one more app).....

I agree

@JaredBusch said in Recommended storage setup for Proxmox VE homelab:

For home use, assuming you have your backups, and such as if real production, go ahead and use WTF ever you want.

Do you mean, it's OK to use RAID 0, so I have more space, and I can normally use ZFS on it?

I plan to install Proxmox VE for the first time as a home lab.
I have HPE ML310 Gen8 tower server with 4 non-hotplug 1TB HDD drives on HPE's B120i RAID controller (supports RAID 0,1 and 1+0).
I would like to install on it: Nextcloud, Meshcentral, maybe Photoprism, maybe Kodi, some Docker apps...

Proxmox's system requirements say:
For local storage use a hardware RAID with battery backed write cache (BBU) or non-RAID for ZFS. Neither ZFS nor Ceph are compatible with a hardware RAID controller.

Would you recommend that I setup disks as RAID10, or to use ZFS on non-RAID disks (or something else) for my non-production use?

Edit: Size of storage is not so important now - 2TB in RAID10 is enough for now, I think

@notverypunny said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:

Am I imagining things or did Windows licensing at one point allow for use of a virtual environment on top of the physical install? If this is (still?) the case, would a W10 install in vbox do the trick?

Licenses fo Windows Server editions allow this.
Standard Windows 10 licenses do not allow running in VMs.

@gjacobse said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@Dashrender said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

are you needing a free solution?

I wouldn't expect Teamviewer to give you unattended access for free. Heck they start nagging and possible disabling the use if they see you abusing the 'free' option.

This is for a 70+ year old club member for his own personal use between his laptop while in Florida and his home computer... so needs to be super simple and reliable and repeatable and - yea... free. And stupid simple.

Then try Ultraviewer: https://www.ultraviewer.net/en/

EDIT: It is free to but it has some ads.
Also, I'm not sure whether the free license allows you to wake up system if it goes to sleep.

@gjacobse said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@gjacobse said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

Any time I try to set this now results in failure after failure and code regeneration - What's the use if restart after reboot if the code changes?

What do you mean by "code regenaration"?

I use Supremo, Meshcentral2 and Teamviewer, and have no issues, after reboots.

I used the 'incorrect' term code... Password.

You need to setup "unattended access" with fixed password.
Look here:
https://community.teamviewer.com/English/kb/articles/1227-setup-secure-unattended-access-to-your-devices

Same is with Supremo.

Meshcentral is great and free, but you need to setup your server.

@JasGot I guess fileserver is on Windows OS:

You need to have different users on fileserver, if you want them to have different access rights to folders.
Then, on remote machines, you need to give usernames/passwords from fileserver, when you map (access) fileserver folders.

Usernames and passwords for accessing OSes on remote PCs does not have any connection to those on fileserver. Those are different accounts (local)

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@Mario-Jakovina said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

I do not see that anyone needs to make "general rule" and select people based on what they prefer to use.

So you agree with my points. My point was people should HAVE it, not hiring based on which they preferred.

I agree with some of your points (i.e. definitely person who wants to work in IT should already have personal PC/laptop...)

But I think there is no need to "draw a line" and make general rule, whether the company will provide business laptop to someone or not, pay for internet...
(I was answering to your question "Where do you draw the line")

@gjacobse said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

Any time I try to set this now results in failure after failure and code regeneration - What's the use if restart after reboot if the code changes?

What do you mean by "code regenaration"?

I use Supremo, Meshcentral2 and Teamviewer, and have no issues, after reboots.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

Basically where do you draw the line?

I don't see why anyone of us (if we are employers) need to "draw a line" about personal/work equipment.

For example, I usually ask employee, does she/he preffers to use personal mobile phone or a separate work device. Same for a car, or phone numbers - if the job does not require to use specific one.

I do not care if I am going to pay for a company phone/car/number... or if I am going to inlcude the cost of it in paycheck.

I prefer to have one laptop, one phone, on phone number, one car (and one motorcycle too )- I do not care if it is personal or from work. But some others prefer to separate the two.

I do not see that anyone needs to make "general rule" and select people based on what they prefer to use.

Edit: I prefer work equipment over personal because of tax reasons in my country. But it is not point here.

@scottalanmiller said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:

We do a 7zip typically before sending.

Does this mean you always do a full backup.
Is there a way to compress incremental backups?
If not, would it be faster to just rsync differences?

@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

Maybe ubuntu tried to mount it as soon as you made the partition.
Found this on a quick search:
"You should be able to right-click on the partition you want to set as bootable and click "Manage Flags", and then check the box for the boot flag."

I unmounted partition.
But I cannot "Manage flags" becuase it is Fat32 (and Linnux is missing some packages for it).

When I write Win10 ISO image with "Disks" app, I also can't "Manage flags", as it is udf formatted partition

@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

I'll quote myself here
But the steps would be:

• Partition USB with a primary bootable FAT32 partition
• Copy files from Win10 ISO onto the USB

No special software needed. Can be done on any OS.

I can make FAT32 primary partition with Gparted, but I cannot make it bootable with Gparted. It says:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for fat32 file system support: dosfstools, mtools.

@gjacobse said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

What do you want to do with this bootable Win10 usb?

Will an existing Win10 ISO work? Like the MS Win10 install ISO, or something Hirens?

Install Win10 as @DustinB3403 said

I want to make bootable USB with Win10 ISO image from laptop with Ubuntu Desktop.

I tried to do it with built-in "Disk Image Writer" (or "Disks") app, but my USB is not bootable, after the image is saved to USB.
Files are correctly saved on USB, but I cannot boot from it (I tried it with 2 different USB sticks)

What is the normal way to make bootable USB from Win10 image on Ubuntu?

@travisdh1 said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

I'm leery about anything running a Celeron J or N series CPU, a Pi is probably going to perform better.

We replaced RPi4 with Celeron J4005 (Intel NUC), and it was significantly faster.
They were both on Linux, displaying live web pages on 2 monitors, and RPi was strugling.
J4005 is very similar to mentioned N4020

@Dashrender said in wifi for unmanaged devices:

no - they don't print from their phones.
I have no idea why they want to be there - other than - I'm an owner.

Then tell them that it is additional burden on corporate wifi/router adn that they will have no benefits from it, and that you would not do it, if it was your company.
If they still insist, let them be.

@Dashrender Do they say they want to print from their phones?
If not, why do they want to be on corporate wifi?