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Rocky 9.4 NFS and Samba configuration

Rocky 9.4 NFS and Samba setup - ISO repository for XCP-ng

Posted on May 11, 2022

Here are the steps how to set up Rocky 9.4 as Samba and NFS share for XCP-ng and it’s VMs. [Read More]
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- HomeLab
- XCP-ng
- Rocky
Xen Orchestra Community Edition - compile from sources

XO Community edition to orchestra your XCP-ng on debian 12.5

Posted on May 6, 2022

The hypervisor of choice for this lab is XCP-ng. [Read More]
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- HomeLab
- XCP-ng
- XenOrchestra
- Debian
XCPng first VM from CLI

First XCPng VM for XenOrchestra compiled from sources

Posted on May 4, 2022

The hypervisor of choice is XCP-ng. This guide has not been invented by me, it is a written version of the material available on YouTube - XCP-ng CLI creating a VM by HomeTinyLab. [Read More]
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- HomeLab
- XCP-ng
- Debian
Advise for newcommers in VirtualWorkplace area

Virtual Workplace aka EUC is not always a bread and butter

Posted on May 1, 2022

Those advises are not mine, but supporting them very much. I wish I knew them earlier. Those come from the End User Computing Veteran (hat’s off) Carl Webster, supported by community members, who are spreading and sharing their knowledge and experience. Carl had created his very well detailed guide Building... [Read More]
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- ReadmeFirst
- EUC
EUC valueable online content

Bunch of online links with valuable content to expand knowledge in EUC area

Posted on April 30, 2022

There is plenty of valuable content on the internet, which is created by the community, here are some of them which are worth following or watching. Keep calm and do puzzles. It’s impossible to list all names of great people who produce the valuable content and link it in one... [Read More]
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- ReadmeFirst
- EUC
EUC books and toolset

Bunch of usefull books and tools

Posted on April 28, 2022

Still it’s worth spending money on books, which brings you non-scattered content, which can be supplemented with the latest updates comming from the great documentation from the venrods, or not. Thank you Carl and Bas Van Kaam. [Read More]
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- ReadmeFirst
- EUC
Channels I value

There is a load of good content spread around

Posted on April 27, 2022

Good content shared for free. [Read More]
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- ReadmeFirst
How to configure FreshTomato as OpenVPN client

Paired with FreshTomato it is based on TLS1.3, Mikrotik - TLS1.2

Posted on April 21, 2022

This example is divided into three pieces. First describes the configuration for the tunnel between two FreshTomato flashed devices, next two sections combines FreshTomato client and Mikrotik Server, Router OS 7 and Router OS 6. It bases on lastest available releases of the software at the time of writing this... [Read More]
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How to configure FreshTomato OpenVPN server - TLS 1.3

Certificate complemented with UserName and Password

Posted on April 20, 2022

This post describe how to setup OpenVPN server on Freshtomato. There are so many versions, that new commers may feel overwhelmed, and there are plenty traps during configuration. I’m not an expert by any means in those areas, using this in my homelab and actually this is the sole purpose... [Read More]
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How to configure Desktop OS as OpenVPN client

OpenVPN tunnel between your desktop Operating system and OpenVPN server

Posted on April 19, 2022

In this example the OpenVPN tunnel is set up between the Mikrotik OpenVPN server and the OpenVPN client installed on Linux or Windows Desktop Operating system. It’s the protocol which should match, it does not matter on top of what compute layer it operates on unless both ends can talk... [Read More]
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- Networking
- OpenVPN
Supermicro IPMI self signed certificates

OpenSSL will bring some grip, here and there

Posted on April 18, 2022

As of 2022.04.16 - draft [Read More]
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- HomeLab
- Supermicro
- Ipmi
- Certificates
- SSL
How to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN Server - ROS 7.X - UDP

Router OS 7.3.1

Posted on April 17, 2022

This is an updated version of previous blog post which was describing how to configure OpenVPN server on ROS 6.X, which brings the updates towards ROS 7.X. Please read this post before applying those settings, unless you can ammend current configuration accordingly to suit your needs. [Read More]
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How to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN client - ROS 7.X - UDP

Router OS 7.3.1

Posted on April 17, 2022

This blog post is a follow-up of another blog post which was describing how to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN client on ROS 6.X [Read More]
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How to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN Server - ROS 6.X - TCP

Router OS 6.48.6

Posted on April 15, 2022

Setting up another virtual interface on Mikrotik is not that difficult provided you know how to do it. OpenSSL installed on your Desktop can be handy to remove the password protection from key in case you are making use of it on the FreshTomato client or you don’t want your... [Read More]
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How to configure Mikrotik OpenVPN client - ROS 6.X - TCP

Router OS 6.48.6

Posted on April 15, 2022

In this scenario the regular traffic is routed through the Internet, where the target networks defined within the static routes, are traversed over the OpenVPN tunnel. The connection takes place between two Mikrotik devices, where the client reach the Internet over lte1 interface. [Read More]
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