The Home of A Tinkering Techie
home for a tinkering techie
Uninstalling the SMTP service in Windows Server 2008 I had previously installed a third party SMTP application (MailEnable) on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. However, I then decided to remove it and install Microsoft Exchange 2010 instead.Unfortunately, the SMTP service component gets left behind and causes the Exchange installer pre-requisite checker to fail saying that […]
ZFS is touted as the uber-filesystem.There are plenty of guides to ZFS that can be found by googling and for that reason I’m going to keep ZFS-specific talk to a minimum, focusing on ZFS in FUSE (zfs-fuse).See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS for a primer on ZFS. ZFS has a number of components but the higher-level ones that are […]
The first service that I wanted running on my server (Ubuntu 10.04) is ssh. It makes administration much easier and allows me to run the server headless and administrate it securely from my Windows 7 machine.SERVER-SIDEFirst you will need to install the openssh server: sudo apt-get install openssh-server Then you’ll want to stop the service […]
Upgrading from Ubuntu Server 9.10 to 10.04 proved less than smooth. As a result I ended up doing a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04.Prior to the upgrade attempt I made sure that both my ZFS zpools (‘DISk1’ and ‘DISK2’) were safely exported using the export command: sudo zpool export DISK1 sudo zpool export DISK2 For […]