So I needed a way to connect to a Linux VM via VNC.

There is a lot of information out there on how to do it, but most of it talks about using less resource intensive desktop (xfce4).

I wanted the full desktop experience, and as both my Linux box and my full-time desktop are both connected to a 1GB switch, I wasn't …

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I created an Ubuntu desktop virtual machine (VM) on my KVM system, and shortly after I started using it, I realized that I hadn't allocated/created a large enough hard drive for my use.

I have a "master" Ubuntu VM that I clone when I need an Ubuntu VM, which is set up and configured they way I like it.

I had …

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I was doing some testing of using a Samba share for OSX's Time Machine backup, and needed to verify that it would actually work.

My initial test simply made sure that the Samba share showed up as an option in the Time Machine preferences, but I needed to run a Time Machine backup.

However, the Ubuntu VM I've been using …

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As part of my NAS migration from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I needed to set up some NFS shares on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Pretty painless, but I need the option to connect from my iMac, there were some additional hoops to jump through, to get everything to work correctly.

Steps

1. Install the necessary packages:

   sudo apt install …

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After I moved from TrueNAS to Ubuntu on my NAS box, I had some issuing deleting some no-longer-needed directories.

One of the TrueNAS features I used was a jail, but those don't exist in Ubuntu (I moved anything that was in a jail to a Docker container).

Trying to delete the jails directory gave me some heartburn, …

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My Plex server (recently switched to a Docker container) refused to play trailers for any of the movies stored on it.

While trying to play a trailer on Plex, this appeared: …

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