Symptoms: When starting the Proxmox 7.x graphical installer, you get presented with the error message below. Installation aborted – unable to continue (type exit or CTRL-D to reboot) root@proxmox:/# When you try to manually start X server with startx you get the message: he log file at “/var/log/Xorg.1.log” for additional information.(EE) (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing lof file.…
Month: September 2023
Elevating explorer.exe
How to make elevation of explorer.exe possible Go to regedit.exe Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{CDCBCFCA-3CDC-436f-A4E2-0E02075250C2} Right-click on the key {CDCBCFCA-3CDC-436f-A4E2-0E02075250C2} Click on Permissions Click Advanced Edit the Owner Fill out your admin user and click OK Click Apply and OK Click Add Type your admin user and click OK Give your admin user Full Control, click Apply and OK Add a String…
Using SSH
What is SSH? SSH stands for Secure Shell. it is a cryptographic network protocol that provides secure remote access and control over a network. Installing SSH: sudo apt install openssh-server Activate the SSH-server: sudo systemctl start ssh Auto-start SSH-server on restart: sudo systemctl enable ssh Verify if SSH is running and will start automatically: sudo systemctl status ssh In the…
Recovering saved passwords from Google Chrome and Edge
How to recover saved passwords from MS Edge/Google Chrome. After reading this blogpost, you’ll think twice when Google Chrome and/or MS Edge asks you to save your password after registering on a website. When saving the username and password, both MS Edge and Google Chrome store the URL, username and password in an encrypted file, called Login Data, found in…
How to install and configure UFW – Uncomplicated FireWall
When hosting your own home-environment, you probably have some services exposed to the internet (webserver, mail,…). Good practice when exposing your server to the internet, is installing a firewall. In this case we will install and configure UFW on Debian 12. Installing UFW: sudo apt update sudo apt install ufw Setting up UFW Defaults: First we are going to deny…
Proxmox how to pass trough hard drives to a virtual machine
When working in a virtual environment, you probably want to pass trough your hard drives to a virtual machine such as Unraid or TrueNas. First, list your harddisks in proxmox. ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ The screenshot above lists the physical hard drives and their partitions (eq. – part1). next, in Proxmox, for each disk you want to pass trough to a…
Mount CIFS shares with credentials file
How to mount a CIFS-network-share with a credentials file. When you are working with virtual machines, mounting network drives is an important task. Mounting drives can be done manually, but when setting up a home-server, things like this should happen automatically. Mounting CIFS-share without permissions: Create a mountpoint: sudo mkdir /mnt/files Mount the share to the mountpoint: sudo mount //192.168.0.200/files…