Subnet configuration on a Hetzner dedicated root server (EX40) is a bit tricky than a normal additional single ip addresses that you can buy for 1EUR. So I wrote the configuration down: [Read more…]
Samba hide Thumbs.db
I have some samba servers with a lot of different shares, all thees share are accessed from different systems like Windows MAC OS X and Linux. Each system let some garbage like: [Read more…]
Linux change MAC-Address
Tiny howto for changing the MAC-Address of your hardware network interface (NIC). If a special firewall accept packets only from a special MAC-Address, with this work around you will trick it out to accept packets from your NIC:
1 | /etc/init.d/networking stop |
OpenVZ adjust RAM
Long Long time ago I wrote how I migrated from Xen to OpenVZ. This post will show you how to manage your VE memory.
First you set the veid=yournumberofve and the rest is copy paste ; Look at the examples:
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Debian squeeze install OpenVZ
I have a tiny embedded server (acrosser model) Intel Celeron with only 400MHz and 512MB Mem total. Before I upgraded debian to squeeze I used Xen, now its time to use OpenVZ.
Reasons:
– My tiny hardware:)
– Container virtualization – I can use more virtual machines
– Less memory usage – Container cannot boot
OpenVZ kernel and the vzctl and vzquota packages are available in the Debian repositories, so we can install them as follows:
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