Category Archives: System Admin

Tips for Likewise Open on Linux

By Martin Guppy | Published: April 8, 2010
Likewise Open makes it very easy to authenticate users on a Linux machine using Windows Active Directory Domain Services and in today’s mixed Operating System environments it is possible to integrate assorted services across your network. Once upon a time I was 100% Linux but got frustrated with the ever complicated setup of LDAP for [...]
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Compiling the Realtek RTL8111 driver on XenServer

By Martin Guppy | Published: March 3, 2010
I have been using Citrix XenServer for a short while now and it has become my virtual(is/iz)ation solution of choice. Things were going great until I started to have problems after upgrading… It seems my onboard Realtek network interface (Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)) was not [...]
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Installing Gentoo using Stacklet Xen3 images on to Citrix XenServer

By Martin Guppy | Published: January 5, 2010
There are many ways you can actually accomplish the installation of VM’s (DomU’s) on Xen and XenServer – from the extreme and complex howto’s to simply using pre-built images and templates. This Howto is a mixture of both and has been written for the following reasons: I found a great site called Stacklet that builds [...]
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Apt-cacher proxy, Translation index files and apt-get update errors

By Martin Guppy | Published: August 4, 2009
After setting up apt-cacher on our home server and setting all our other computers to use it as a proxy caching service, we found that apt-get update and Update Manager always fails while fetching Translations. Get:5 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_AU [2734B] Ign http://mirror.files.bigpond.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_AU Err http://mirror.files.bigpond.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_AU Error reading from server - read (104 [...]
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