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In this article I’ll be installing an configuring a personal music server based on Navidrome. The first part of the install will be specific to my home network setup which is covered in numerous other posts. Music Share Setup The…
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Mounting a Samba Share Under Debian
In this article we’ll permanently mount a Samba share on a Debian based system, this process will be similar for other Linux distributions too. It is assumed that you have a share somewhere else already configured and ready to go.…
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Setting up Sudo on Debian
In this article I’ll set up the sudo system on Debian. By default the Debian installer only sets up sudo if you don’t supply a root password at install time. You don’t need sudo on a machine to to use…
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Proxmox Firewall
Today I’ll be looking at the Proxmox firewall and what to do about container and VM firewalls. Out of the box Proxmox comes with a firewall installed but not activated. At a minimum you should probably activate the Proxmox firewall…
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Automatic Updates on Debian
When you’ve got a few machines, virtual or real, to keep updated it can become quite a chore. There are tools like Ansible that can automate day to day jobs but right now that feels like overkill for what I…
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Installing Docker and Portainer on a Proxmox VM
This article will cover installing Docker and Portainer on a Proxmox VM, we created the VM in the previous article. There’s a bit of a shift in the home server Proxmox world over to using containers rather than Docker. Personally,…
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Creating a Basic VM on Proxmox
In this article I’ll be creating a new virtual machine that will run Docker. This machine will eventually host a number of services for my family such as a music server and photo viewing, but that’s for another day. BIOS…
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Installing Pi-Hole on Proxmox
In this article I’ll be installing Pi-Hole on Proxmox. Pi-Hole is a DNS sinkhole or blackhole that can effectively block ads and other unwanted content. It works by replacing your usual DNS server with Pi-Hole and then dishing up non-routable…
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Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 3
This is the third article in the series about using Proxmox as a NAS. For this article to make sense you’ll need to have a container set up and sharing host files via Samba similar to shat was set up…
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Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 2
The setup described in this article will work if you have a followed the first article in this series however it is not an optimal setup. Once you’ve read the next article in this series you’ll understand the weaknesses in…
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Building a NAS Using Proxmox – Part 1
The first thing many people do with their home server is set up file sharing. If you’re running an OS such as TrueNAS this is really simple, but I’m running Proxmox so that I can also easily run virtual machines…
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Making Spell Checking Work in Firefox
I can’t believe this doesn’t just work out of the box 100% of the time but apparently spell checking doesn’t work in Firefox unless you have more than one setting correctly configured at the same time. This does not seem…