As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to share the videos folder on my NAS, that is used by Plex.

I've done very basic, simple Samba shares before, simply to quickly transfer files, with little regard to security and/or safeguarding.

I'll give TrueNAS credit, it's GUI makes setting up a Samba …

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I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …

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I recently installed WebVirtCloud for a browser-based way of administrating my KVM server remotely.

Originally, I used the auto-install script provided, which required some changes to get it to work/work correctly on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Looking further into the auto-install script, I decided to document how to do a …

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I recently bought a new headless server to handle virtual machines.

I decided to go with the built-in KVM ability of Ubuntu, and used Ubuntu Server 20.04 since it's a LTS (Long Term Support) release.

Unfortunately, there is no built-in ability to remotely manage virtual machines, and while I love the command line, I …

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Each Kindle has it's own email address, which exists to allow you to email ebooks to your Kindle.

The easiest way to get ebooks from Calibre-Web to your Kindle is to add your Kindle's email address to your profile in Calibre-Web.

It's easy to do, but there are a few steps involved.

Find your Kindle's email address

Log …

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I was on my mobile, looking up a few recipes, I was amazed at the number of intrusive ads I was getting, which made reading the web pages almost impossible.

Decided it was time to investigate Pi-hole, as I'd heard good things about it.

The Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, …

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