When away from home, it's always nice to be able to access devices, servers, services, on my home network.

In addition to accessing my home network's resources, if I route all of my traffic through my home network, I get the added benifit of avoiding insecure wireless networks.

There have been more than a few …

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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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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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