Here i go again, Linux what flavour? - Page 8

LeperousDust · 02-11-2007, 02:37

Wohoo, it works! It works even though now on the Printer Queue in windows is says cannot access/ access denied? But it's printing fine? Any reasons? Also i wouldn't mind pushing the Generic driver that comes with windows from the samba share if it isn't too hard, makes other peoples (actually mine cause im setting it up on a few computers) easier... Right well that wasn't that painful, and feels good!

Mark · 02-11-2007, 02:49

I never bothered with driver pushing, but it's the print$ share and I guess it works like any other share.

As for the printer status, yeah, I have permission problems too. Dunno how to solve that one.

LeperousDust · 02-11-2007, 04:15

Right drive pushing is being hassle far more than the time saving would be worth. It's not needed. Just formated all the hard drives, looking into automatically running a simple backup script everyday sometime and writing the backup to my other mounted sammy. Then its onto the FAT32 formatted drives for some RAID action

LeperousDust · 02-11-2007, 05:07

Time for bed, two tutorials in about 5 hours and i've fubared something, have to fix tomorrow. Getting I/O errors from hda1 (one of the large 400gb) i set to auto mount and quick check. I can't boot into Ubuntu because the errors just keep on coming (hundreds of them i guess?). Need to boot failsafe with grub i guess and unedit my fstab config and then work out whats wrong with the drive(s)... Apart from that, i have a fully functioning printer, webmin (really cool), and auto logon so i can run it headless easy.

To do still:
RAID
OS Backup managment of somekind
Maybe a media extender of some sort for a placeshifter?
Anything else cool and servery now i'm getting more adventurous

Dr. Z · 02-11-2007, 13:02

Input errors when mounting the drive? Hmm... Did you previously have it in a RAID config? Does the other 400Gb drive work fine?

Note: Personally, I wont put a mount into fstab unless I am at least fairly sure everything is hunky dory. Saves later hassle if you get something wrong!

Mark · 02-11-2007, 13:35

I agree. fstab editing is the very last step.

LeperousDust · 02-11-2007, 14:14

Oops

Well i'm back home and i'll ge that sorted out in a bit, going to make lunch first

LeperousDust · 02-11-2007, 15:38

Best thing about this whole linux stuff is i know i've fubared some pretty major settings by the looks of things, can't boot to failsafe, but i know if i throw the LiveCD in i can fix the fstab file and i'm on my way again

//Edit: Right so thats sorted, i'm loaded back up again, and this time i just browsed to the vollumes and they auto mounted just fine?

LeperousDust · 02-11-2007, 16:58

Ok, all systems go, think i've got mdadm working, drives where previously partitions by gparted before i went postal last night. Pointed it to the signle partition on the hard drives and i'm cat /proc/mdstat and i think i have about 300 minutes to go, which possibly sounds right. So once this is done, i'm RAIDed, and then i'm going to look into putting LVM on top, so i can "grow" this collection if need be?

LeperousDust · 02-11-2007, 17:32

Have setup Simple backup script which incremetally backups up every nights at 2:00, it excludes files over 95Mb and a few other things (i'll post the exclude/include lists soojn as im not totally as home with the concept just yet). Every two weeks it does a full backup, and purges things logarithmically to save space (not thats i really need too...) More than happy!

02-11-2007, 02:37	#71
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Wohoo, it works! It works even though now on the Printer Queue in windows is says cannot access/ access denied? But it's printing fine? Any reasons? Also i wouldn't mind pushing the Generic driver that comes with windows from the samba share if it isn't too hard, makes other peoples (actually mine cause im setting it up on a few computers) easier... Right well that wasn't that painful, and feels good! __________________

02-11-2007, 04:15	#73
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Right drive pushing is being hassle far more than the time saving would be worth. It's not needed. Just formated all the hard drives, looking into automatically running a simple backup script everyday sometime and writing the backup to my other mounted sammy. Then its onto the FAT32 formatted drives for some RAID action __________________

02-11-2007, 05:07	#74
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Time for bed, two tutorials in about 5 hours and i've fubared something, have to fix tomorrow. Getting I/O errors from hda1 (one of the large 400gb) i set to auto mount and quick check. I can't boot into Ubuntu because the errors just keep on coming (hundreds of them i guess?). Need to boot failsafe with grub i guess and unedit my fstab config and then work out whats wrong with the drive(s)... Apart from that, i have a fully functioning printer, webmin (really cool), and auto logon so i can run it headless easy. To do still: RAID OS Backup managment of somekind Maybe a media extender of some sort for a placeshifter? Anything else cool and servery now i'm getting more adventurous __________________

02-11-2007, 13:02	#75
Dr. Z I'm going for a scuttle... Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,021	Input errors when mounting the drive? Hmm... Did you previously have it in a RAID config? Does the other 400Gb drive work fine? Note: Personally, I wont put a mount into fstab unless I am at least fairly sure everything is hunky dory. Saves later hassle if you get something wrong! __________________

02-11-2007, 14:14	#77
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Oops Well i'm back home and i'll ge that sorted out in a bit, going to make lunch first __________________

02-11-2007, 02:49	#72
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	I never bothered with driver pushing, but it's the print$ share and I guess it works like any other share. As for the printer status, yeah, I have permission problems too. Dunno how to solve that one.

02-11-2007, 13:35	#76
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	I agree. fstab editing is the very last step.

02-11-2007, 15:38	#78
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Best thing about this whole linux stuff is i know i've fubared some pretty major settings by the looks of things, can't boot to failsafe, but i know if i throw the LiveCD in i can fix the fstab file and i'm on my way again //Edit: Right so thats sorted, i'm loaded back up again, and this time i just browsed to the vollumes and they auto mounted just fine? __________________

02-11-2007, 16:58	#79
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Ok, all systems go, think i've got mdadm working, drives where previously partitions by gparted before i went postal last night. Pointed it to the signle partition on the hard drives and i'm cat /proc/mdstat and i think i have about 300 minutes to go, which possibly sounds right. So once this is done, i'm RAIDed, and then i'm going to look into putting LVM on top, so i can "grow" this collection if need be? __________________

02-11-2007, 17:32	#80
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Have setup Simple backup script which incremetally backups up every nights at 2:00, it excludes files over 95Mb and a few other things (i'll post the exclude/include lists soojn as im not totally as home with the concept just yet). Every two weeks it does a full backup, and purges things logarithmically to save space (not thats i really need too...) More than happy! __________________