If your VPN connection suddenly stops working when you are using a Synology NAS with Synology VPN Server this may be caused by a few reasons.
Continue readingJan 04 2023
Nextcloud OnlyOffice document security token error
I am running Nextcloud and OnlyOffice Document server in different Portainer stacks. They are behind a Traefik docker container used as a reverse proxy.
When updating Nextcloud from one version to another i sometimes get the error below, when trying to open DOCX / XLSX files:
Continue readingAug 03 2022
Veeam – cannot install PowerShell v5.1
When I tried to install VEEAM 11 on a Windows 7 x64 VM, it couldn’t install Microsoft PowerShell v5.1. The reason is very simple, it needs Windows Update service enabled and a working internet connection.
Continue readingMay 07 2022
Filezilla – unknown eventType 37 Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing sftp
If you use SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) instead of FTP and receive “unknown eventType 37 Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing sftp”, then check your homedir permissions for the user.
In my case the owner of the user’s home folder was another user. The message from Filezilla wasn’t clear, but thankfully WinSCP knows to throw a “permission error” message.
Jan 28 2018
Dell Vostro 270 Inspiron 660 pinout
This is the pinout for Dell motherboards found on Vostro 270 / Inspiron 660 motherboards (on possibly others).
I found the pins for : power switch, hdd LED, power LED that need to be connected to the case.
Apr 28 2017
Grafana not showing mount points containing dot in name in Disk Space plugin
I use Grafana and Prometheus to monitor my home server running on Ubuntu 16.04 x32 (Atom N270 CPU). I noticed that my external USB HDD is shown in Disk Space dashboard, but only in Mountpoint Usage graph. I only see the graph with the percentage.
Apr 23 2017
Exclude from Grafana ISPConfig mounted logs in Disk Space dashboard
I use Grafana to monitor a few servers. Because ISPConfig mounts the logs folders to other locations, the disk stats provided by the Prometheus Node Exporter include info that is not useful (at least for me).
This is how the Disk Space Graph is shown :