Build your own server

Hello,

Thank you for the excellent article. I had everything running yesterday, but today the vnc does not work. SSH through putty works, but not VNC. I will retry this section and see if it fixes it.

My question is about the file serving. When I start up my XP workstation and access the file server it asks for my login and password. There is no problem with this, I'm just wondering if I have to do this every time I restart my workstation. Is there a way to turn this off (or automate it)?

Thanks. New to linux, apologies for incorrect/confusing terminology usage

In Windows Explorer, select "extra" => "create new network connection", make the connection and check 'reconnect upon reboot' (or something alike, I have/had a Dutch version of XP)

Yeah... should have known that.

Is there a way to continue with the tutorial past torrentflux while they sort themselves out? I've searched in Synaptic and found torrentflux, but didn't want to dl it in case it was the wrong thing and/or different. Can i use that? Is there a way?

The torrentflux package doesn't work properly last time I tried. And Torrentflux is totally optional, so you can just continue if desired.

i personally prefer azureus

It has DHT, plus it allows global caps
You dont need a headed box to run it, but u will need a display to set it up (sadly)

great article gonna do this but??????? downloaded desktop (both) burnt to disk have a clean machine can't find boot on cd any assist

Terry

Look around inside your BIOS and set the CDROM to the primary boot device

Originally Posted by Glider
Look around inside your BIOS and set the CDROM to the primary boot device

Thanks for reply
I have set bios up to only boot from cd but it keeps telling me that it can't boot on cd

you probably didnt burn the CD properly then

That's what I'm thinking... Did you burn the image as an image? Or extracted the files and burnt those?

Originally Posted by Glider
That's what I'm thinking... Did you burn the image as an image? Or extracted the files and burnt those?

thanks for reply guys i will re do another cd and see what happens

Re burned cd all ok thanks however------------saved smb file on directory it shows it as smb.config------in terminal I assume sudo su for root but on entry /etc/init.d/samba restart--------no directory found pls help

Terry

at a guess, samba isnt installed

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install samba
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

me again=================typed in the command for proftpd but not available---in synaptic the files are not shown for loading???

T

Originally Posted by mull7of
me again=================typed in the command for proftpd but not available---in synaptic the files are not shown for loading???

T

Try:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install proftpd

If that doesn't work, can you post the output of

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Glider - I can't believe you're still answering questions on your guide - Apparently Linux requires one to have a brain and work things out for themselves a little. (Read: Windows is written by monkeys, for monkeys...)

So the install, the setup of things went fine, no issues and most of your instructions were clear...(I needed to amend standard proftpd & samba config files to your specs rather than use your cut down version)

My question - and I can't for the life of me, figure it out....

Your little useradd script - I have pasted what I have below:

</home/useradd.sh>

#! /bin/bash
# Useradd script written by teh intarnets
if [ 'whoami' != 'root' ]
	then
	   echo "ERROR: You should be root to add users!"
   exit
fi
echo -n "Username: "
read username
useradd -d /home/$username -m -s /bin/bash $username
passwd $username
smbpasswd -a $username

I am logged in via VNC (using SSH tunnel as per your instructions)
Command typed: sh useradd.sh
Response: ERROR: You should be root to add users!

I have tried this as normal user, with an "sudo ..." and with both "sudo su" and "sudo bash" (which should both have the same effect) and they all return this...

As root - I type whoami at prompt and return is root

Please enlighten me...What have I missed? - Why is it telling me I need to be root when I am root?

- Thanks in advance.

Cheers for the guide too by the way - You've written this extremely well and should be most proud.
I enjoyed how you slowly 'broke the user in' to the world of CLI rather than starting from CLI and if you don't get it, too bad.
:D

pwned nz, youve used the wrong speech/quote marks it should be these

 [ `whoami` != “root” ] 

tried that....makes no difference. - sorry :-/

Originally Posted by pwnd_nz
Glider - I can't believe you're still answering questions on your guide - Apparently Linux requires one to have a brain and work things out for themselves a little. (Read: Windows is written by monkeys, for monkeys...)

That's called service ;)

Originally Posted by pwnd_nz

Code:

if [ 'whoami' != 'root' ]

It should be:

if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]

note the backticks around whoami (backticks; not single quotes)

Originally Posted by Glider
That's called service ;)

It should be:

Code:

if [ `whoami` != 'root' ]

note the backticks around whoami (backticks; not single quotes)

is the root part meant to be speach marks "root" or single quotes 'root', i only ask as the guide had speach and you just suggested single quotes.
is torrentflux dead?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/torrentflux/ seems to be the go.

And much appreciated for pointing that out - I had presumed it was bit-tech's oddball formatting making me see things....
turns out I was actually just seeing things :D

Thanks very much.

looks likes its going a different direction with new management (best word i could think of). look here

Hi, loved the article I have just finished doing part one and I have 2 problems.

Seems as though one of my problems is quite common, When using vnc I get the failed to connect to server error. This is after I have opened an ssh tunnel with putty. (Putty connects fine) how is this fixed?

Problem number two is a bit weird. When I setup PHPMyAdmin I changed the password as described and it brought me back to the login screen. Now when I try and login as user: root and my password it wont let me! anyway I can get back in and change this?

If anyone could help that would be much appreciated. Im a linux noob. ;)