notes on attempting to install vmesxi vsphere client (from vmesxi 6 level) under wine on linux

download client installer from esxi server (local) web page

download microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 from MS.

   https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10166

 

notes on installing dot net that seems useful

   https://www.windowsbbs.com/threads/unable-to-install-microsoft-net-framework-3-5-sp1.86711/ 

 

getting error when installing dot net 3.5 sp1 

  "Turn Windows Features on or off" ...

   https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=7754 

 

 

 

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QEMU serial port suggestion

 

A fellow on Facebook suggested the following to create a serial port (virtual) to telnet into on a QEMU host emulation.  

Running a sparc host running Solaris 2.8 or Sunos 4.1 as guests with sparc versions on the qemu host.  Networking isn't functional yet, but would be nice to get into the system remotely somehow till it does.  

This emulates a serial port on a virtual Sparc system so won't natively have any networking.  Hopefully will discover how to get the sparc host NIC connected on the guest, but this is handy for now.

Adam Koerner
Jim St Add "-serial telnet:localhost:4321,server,nowait". Then you can just telnet to the 4321 port

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Nice Samba hints and setup page

 Still looking for solution to a problem mounting from some servers onto an Ubuntu 22, and getting a 115 error.  apparently an improperly rejected connect attempt, but no solution yet.

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-configure-samba-server-share-on-ubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish-linux

Windows timeline enable / disable

Using settings is preferable to using this method, which involves a register edit.  Recording here for information only.  

 

https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/how_to_disable_or_enable_timeline_in_windows_10.html

local file links firefox linux

 

Firefox doesn't allow following links on Linux, so one can't get to off system nas files.

 

need change to allow this to work. 

https://superuser.com/questions/1617161/how-to-enable-local-file-links-in-firefox-on-windows

 

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Wine 32 bit on x64 64 bit, problem notes

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/177192/how-do-i-create-a-32-bit-wine-prefix

 

https://community.clearlinux.org/t/wine-failed-to-load-so-lib-usr-lib32-wine-winex11-drv-so/5786

 

readynas tips page netgear

 

Readynas knowledge base on netgear website

 

https://kb.netgear.com/20898/ReadyNAS-ReadyDATA-Boot-Menu

 

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Notes on hosting google drive sync on windows machine on an external drive, rather than the windows host.

three supposed methods.  Already tried to set the host drive to other than the main host, with no success.

main system is laptop, with 2gb drive.  google drive is 3tb $10 / month.  Will be going to 5gb soon, so want to host all files locally on an external 5gb drive.

https://www.cbackup.com/articles/sync-google-drive-to-external-hard-drive.html#:~:text=Connect%20the%20external%20hard%20drive,in%20the%20pop%2Dup%20window.

• Way 1. Sync files to external hard drive using Drive for desktop

• Way 2. Sync files to external hard drive with Google Drive disk

• Way 3. Sync Google Drive to external hard drive automatically

• Bonus tip: how to sync & backup Google Drive to another cloud

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connect to readynas with 4.x firmware which doesn't support TLS 2 or SMB 1.0

 

Readynas older versions

Notes about connecting to older Readynas 4.x isn't available with (or may not be) TLS 2 support.  Windows 10 has killed TLS below that.  admin page won't work even with warning.

The issue is Firefox (maybe other browsers) enforce this.  Not sure when that was also done with the system support, but undoubtedly will be there at some point.

Firefox setting:

bring up about:config, acknowledge warning

security.tls.version.max

security.tls.version.min

Set min to 1, so that will connect to 1.x web pages.  Max doesn't need to be changed in this case.

Windows SMB

 Windows 10 SMB may be set to not support 1.0.  in a home setting this may be used if the network is secured and not visible or available to outside or unauthorized connections.

hit windows button, type in "Turn Windows Features On or Off" or some portion till matching that.

scroll to SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support and check the box.  Apply.  May take some time but will have progress box.  took 3min on a win10 client on ESXI host.

about:config  security.tls.version.min = 1  leave max = 4 (as of ver 104 firefox)

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using docker notes

Access page while running

http://localhost:8840

 

how to log into container

https://www.goglides.dev/roshan_thapa/how-to-edit-file-docker-container-or-edit-a-file-after-docker-container-ce

 

finding container

docker ps -a

docker system in

docker info

 

run an ubuntu container

docker run -it ubuntu bash

run commands inside container (example, sub container id for -it for below)

docker exec -it 52b3bd362c40 id

 

run a shell (simple) inside a running container

docker exec -u 0 -it 0f629993d2c3 sh

with snap version of docker, containers are in directories such as

/var/snap/docker/common/var-lib-docker/overlay2/0e...6e7/diff/app

 

stop a container instance

docker stop <container>

 

list files

docker exec <container> ls

 

copy files

docker cp  <container>:relative (or abs) path  not wildcards seem to work

WatchYourLAN notes

notes for sqlite

• install sqlite on host
• sqlite3 db.sqlite
• sqlite> .dump [. at start is required]
• copy and save the resulting SQL file to something.sql for future use
• use site https://inloop.github.io/sqlite-viewer/# to upload the db.sqlite file
• need to clone the sqlite-viewer site to local server so it doesn't vanish and update here.

github

https://github.com/aceberg/WatchYourLAN#quick-start

 

reddit support / discussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/wwhijk/watchyourlanv06

 

Kodi SMB protocol setting

 

Kodi seems to require you to set the level.  The current minimum setting on 19.1 and 20 is none.  The maximum was set to v3

In the Settings -> services -> SMB Client box, set both min and max to v1 if using window clients.

Haven't tried it with Readynas SMB protocol shares.

May need to clear memory on Android system / phone for KODI.

settings -> apps -> memory -> cache -> memory.

clearing memory will erase all configuration, and permissions and all shares will need to be re-entered.