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Forum software that also allows E-Mail posting and reading - any recommendations?
by Chris Green 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

I used to belong to a very nice boating forum where you could visit the forum on the web but it also functioned as a mailing list. Sadly they moved platform and changed to a forum which didn't support E-Mail. I'm now looking for forum software which does what their old forum did, I want a web forum which also supports posting and reading by E-Mail. I've discovered Discourse which seems to do this but does anyone know of any other possibilities? To be installed on Ubuntu probably, either a real system or, more likely, a virtual server. -- Chris Green

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Samba 4 as a domain controller
by B D 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hi, Where I work, we have a small disconnected network in which there is almost as many servers as users <rofl>. Some are old MS2008r2 some are newer Server 2016 machines and in the next couple of years they all will be out-of-support. With the imminent decision of what to do with the upgrade and my attempt to introduce Nextcloud to the environment I started testing Samba4 as AD. All seams to be working, if I have access to RSAT installed on a Windows workstation, but it gets more complicated from Ubuntu cli. With the help of some tools I found here and there I can manage the domain but it's is far from pretty (not to mention business continuity - if I was to leave such setup no-one would be able to manage - or maybe that's a good thing? ;) My questions here are: #1 - Has anyone came across Samba4 environment or has personal experiences? #2 - Do you know of any tools that would make it easier to manage Samba4? #3 (this is a lengthy one) How on earth RedHat is building its environment where it manages muiltiple client OSs (purely theoretical question but I could consider moving to CentOS if AD management is simpler). Cheers Bart

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Re: [ALUG] Samba 4 as a domain controller
by B D 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hi Stuart, Zentyal and Nethserver are options that I do consider but they are so heavily customised I'm concerned about installing Nextcloud & Collabora from other packages. That could lead to other problems after a while. Cheers pon., 20 kwi 2020 o 11:32 Stuart Bailey <Stuart.Bailey(a)ast-uk.com> napisał(a): > > Have you looked at Zentyal? > > ________________________________ > From: main <main-bounces(a)lists.alug.org.uk> on behalf of B D <dzidek23(a)gmail.com> > Sent: 20 April 2020 11:29 > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk>; main(a)lists.plug.org.uk <main(a)lists.plug.org.uk> > Subject: [ALUG] Samba 4 as a domain controller > > Hi, > > Where I work, we have a small disconnected network in which there is > almost as many servers as users <rofl>. Some are old MS2008r2 some are > newer Server 2016 machines and in the next couple of years they all > will be out-of-support. With the imminent decision of what to do with > the upgrade and my attempt to introduce Nextcloud to the environment I > started testing Samba4 as AD. > > All seams to be working, if I have access to RSAT installed on a > Windows workstation, but it gets more complicated from Ubuntu cli. > With the help of some tools I found here and there I can manage the > domain but it's is far from pretty (not to mention business continuity > - if I was to leave such setup no-one would be able to manage - or > maybe that's a good thing? ;) > > My questions here are: > #1 - Has anyone came across Samba4 environment or has personal experiences? > #2 - Do you know of any tools that would make it easier to manage Samba4? > #3 (this is a lengthy one) How on earth RedHat is building its > environment where it manages muiltiple client OSs (purely theoretical > question but I could consider moving to CentOS if AD management is > simpler). > > Cheers > Bart > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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DMARC and ALUG
by Mark Rogers 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

I've been made aware of some of my messages to this list going into spam because of a failed DMARC check. How should I fix this? Note: I have control over my sending domain's DNS. Should I just remove the DMARC DNS record? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Cheap Linux VPS
by Steve Mynott 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Can anyone recommend a cheap Linux VPS? -- Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com> cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

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Re: [ALUG] Installing Ubuntu dual-boot on an Asus X512FAC laptop
by Mark Rogers 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 18:32, B D <dzidek23(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder if your "corrupted" drive is a hibernated (locked) ntfs > partition... in windows 10 when you "power down" the OS it hibernates > more that switches off. Try to load hard drive pulled from windows > machine and you are more than likely to find "corrupted"/inaccessible > filesystem. The corrupted partition is where the EFI boot code sits, that is FAT not NTFS. That said I did disable Windows fast boot (or whatever it is called) as I know that doesn't play nicely with dual boot because, as you say, it leaves the main Windows partition locked. > I'm really interested what did you had to do to fix the EFI boot? Wiped the disk and let Ubuntu do its thing. >From what I read, if I now reinstall Windows it'll mess up grub (to be expected) but aside from that (which grub-repair will fix) that will allow dual boot. But I don't have sufficient need for dual-boot that I can be bothered now I have a working Ubuntu install. > For the num lock issues have you tried to update the BIOS to the latest version? Yes, and sadly no option, which seems an odd omission but there you go I have opened a support ticket with ASUS, I'm sure they can tell me if I have missed something.. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Numlock at boot (grub)
by Mark Rogers 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

So now the laptop boots, and I have the boot disk encrypted. But like every good password it includes numbers, and the laptop boots with numlock off. Annoyingly there's no UEFI setting for it. Does anyone know if there's a way to force numlock on before entering the encryption password? Seems like an obvious need but the only answers I have found are to enable it in the BIOS which only works if the option is there. I do have numlockx installed but that only kicks in later in the boot. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Re: [ALUG] Installing Ubuntu dual-boot on an Asus X512FAC laptop
by Mark Rogers 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 12:57, B D <dzidek23(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Since Windows 10 was introduced it always messed up with Linux boot. > If your wife is happy with Ubuntu, why do you need to keep Windows at > all? I thought that more recently Win10 played more nicely? My concern here is that for whatever reason grub isn't getting a look in. If I go straight from Ubuntu install (inc grub, in theory) to booting Ubuntu (or at least trying to) then surely Windows never gets chance to "break" anything? If so a wipe and clean install of Ubuntu only could well leave me with nothing that boots at all. And I I might struggle to restore Windows at that point (I'd have lost the OEM install partition, and whilst I could reinstall Win10 from USB I'd have lost all the supplied ASUS drivers which may be problematic.) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Lineage OS
by Phil Thane 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Hello LUGS, Am I allowed to ask Android questions? It is a Linux distro, right? Backstory: I bought a WIleyfox Storm mobile several years ago, mostly because it ran Cyanogen out of the box. (My previous phone was a discount job from Orange that I'd rooted and wiped and put Cyanogen on). I was pretty pleased with it right up to when Wileyfox went into administration around the same time Cyanogen closed. Three years ago I tried to put the last Cyanogen version on it, but failed and reverted to stock. It has been getting slow and was full of crap so I decided to install Lineage OS (fork of and follow on to Cyanogen). So it's unlocked and rooted and USB debug enabled, has been for years. As per Lineage install instructions I have Fastboot and ADB on my PC. Put phone into Fastboot mode and flashed a recovery ROM (twrp). Recovery mode works OK. Wiped data and cache partitions. Onto flashing Lineage OS and it seems to go well but ends with a message 'Signature Verification Failed'. Tried it both from ADB via PC and by loading Lineage to SD card and running from there. Same error. Lineage 'support' is via a Reddit forum and lots of people have asked the same question in relation to several different phones. The answers make no sense to me, I guess because the twrp screens vary. Some suggest that twrp cannot verify signed files so the user must verify it manually, but there's no clue how to do that. The Lineage download filename includes 'signed' but there's no sign of a downloadable key. Not to worry, I thought. There's a recovery mode... It boots OK finds my WiFi and accepts a password. The next screen requires my Google login. I used to use a fake ID on the phone 'will.e.ffox' (ie Wileyfox) but the setup won't accept that, it wants the 'email previously used on the device'. As I wiped the device there should be no record so I assume that the recovery rom has a username and pwd all of its own. But what? Advice online is all about recovering lost Google passwords to known accounts. I guess what I really need to know is how do criminals reset stolen phones and get past Google's checks? -- Phil Thane www.pthane.co.uk Tweet @pthane 01767 449759 07582 750607

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Installing Ubuntu dual-boot on an Asus X512FAC laptop
by Mark Rogers 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

I'm trying to install Ubuntu on a new Asus laptop and not having much success. Or more precisely I can install it easily enough but cannot access it once installed. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 Beta because of its new kernel which should give me access to all my hardware, so I'm mindful that might be an issue, but I'm hoping someone has seen something like this before and knows the workaround. Before I started I reduced the Windows partition size down to create space for Ubuntu. From Windows I then reboot to a USB key with Ubuntu on it, I then boot into Ubuntu Live desktop and run the installer. I proceed through the installation without issues and reboot. At which point Windows boots - there's no grub, no option to do anything else. If I go into the BIOS (UEFI laptop settings) I can force it to boot from Ubuntu, but that just gets me a blank screen on boot (no grub, nothing past the Asus boot logo). If I boot back into Ubuntu via the USB stick and install and run boot repair, it gives me no repair option to try (first time I've seen that: the repair button is just missing). Thoughts? The laptop is for my wife and she's used Ubuntu for the last few years with no issues, so I'm reluctant to send her back to Windows even temporarily. I can try 19.10 if anyone thinks that might be the issue, but the fact that even boot repair doesn't give me any options makes me think this is a UEFI/Windows issue not an installer one. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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