Nuking your permissions problems on a server is typically just as bad as wiping out the server.  Before you start trying to compare permissions server to server based on what they were elsewhere on a similar host, take a backup of the already misconfigured host.  Yeah your system is already messed up but at least […]

Trying to tweak my RSS feeds off the site, I encounter this error: This page contains the following errors: error on line 2 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. Looking at the source code, we see this result: […]

Was struggling to increase the number of RSS feeds displayed for our readers.  However, it proved less then intuitive until I stumbled upon the correct setting in the Admin Panel of WordPress.  The one setting you need is under Admin – Settings – Reading: Syndication feeds show the most recent  items And increase this number […]

So I had an established connection on my router that didn't look like it belonged.  I didn't recognize the device and it wasn't pingable so it was probably a stale old connection.  In this case it was one of my mobile devices which went offline sometime back but didn't close the connection.  On most systems […]

This is a simple howto on generating keys.  For this post, we'll simply create a one way auto-login no passphrase key pair for use between one of our systems and our router.  However, we won't allow the router to autologin to the hosts.  First step in this is to generate the keys however do check […]

On the other hand, if you're getting this sort of issue: # smbclient //192.168.0.14/I/ Enter root's password: Domain=[WINPC_NAME] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME # Then tips on this Samba / CIFS Connectivity page may help. Regards, TK

If you're getting this sort of issue: $ smbclient //192.168.9.9/I$  /mnt/winshare-I -o rw,user="MeUser",password="somepassword" -v Domain=[WINPC_NAME] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED $   Then follow us on our Samba / CIFS Connectivity page for the resolution to the issue.  Hope this helps out! Regards, TK

Sometime back we've changed the links on this post from the /WordPress/YEAT/MONTH/DAY/[POST NAME] to something a bit shorter like /wp/[POST NAME].  Basically we took our earlier URL's and changed them up.  That's good and bad news.  The good because the links are shorter and since they already have a date, there really wasn't much sense […]

In case you are faced with this error when you attempt to list shared on Windows systems and when running strace smbclient -L //192.168.0.10 -U'root%SECRET' -vvvv: stat("/usr/lib64/samba/en_US.UTF-8.msg", 0x7fffb902c980) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), …}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fe86235c000 write(1, "Connection to 192.168.0.10 faile"…, […]

When trying to setup the bonding interface for link aggregation, you get this message at startup: bonding device bond0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.                                                            [FAILED]