Beiträge von geaves

    wipefs -n /dev/sd? (?=letter of drive) will show signatures on drive, booting using the rescue cd (in omv-extras) will allow you to remove a zfs signature whilst leaving the ext4 in place. Much quicker than a secure wipe on large drive.

    enabling this results in a popup with "communication failure", and endless waiting while its tries to enable.

    Mine did the same, after 10 mins of watching 'enabling backports' I refreshed the page, then carried on with the install, and it's working.

    That is pure BS. This alone tells me that, a minimum, the tech is either incompetent or is taking advantage of those who don't know any better.

    It certainly is, the irony is I know the company, they are specialists in audio, video equipment but somewhere along the line they have employed a couple of very good 'techies' to prompt what they have seen as an additional revenue stream. Most primary schools will nationally recognised companies, there are few, but there are some I would not use, it's only in the last few years schools have been allowed to source from other companies outside of the designated local authority list. This has lead to small companies either starting out or branching out their current business model. To me this fine 'if' they can prove themselves over a period of time, however, like all schools that are facing a funding reduction these new kids on the block appear (at least to the school) to be offering the same as the big boys, but for less money!! The thing is the two guys back at the office do very little field work they employ youngsters who aren't wet behind the ears! and the support is based is based on 1/2 day per week (which is 3 hours) depending on what you want to pay for. But the price is set as 'per year' clever, because I think the UK school year is around 33 weeks, so when you back calculate that 1/2 day has increased in actually support price.
    When I was asked to look at the original quote this was one thing I highlighted because 99% of support work can be done remotely, so why are you having a support person come out to you (in the case of the wife's school) 1/2 day per month! X(
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    Had that laptop, nothing appeared to wrong with it, but the taskbar was blank of icons with the revolving blue circle, the windows key wouldn't operate any windows shortcuts and the touchpad didn't work unless the mouse was on the screen!! However, the power supply I got sent didn't fit 8o so tried my own :thumbup: shutdown the laptop plugged in my power supply and it was Ok everything started working ?( so I'm wondering if the power supply they have been using is the problem. The laptop (according to the sticker) was rated at 2.5A, the power supply I got sent was only 2.1A whereas mine is rated at 3.4A, but mine fitted and charged the battery! That's gonna be worth a few bars of chocolate, I charge in chocolate bars :D provided it's got nuts in, it's family proof ^^
    I thought it might be the CPU, fan outlet blocked, but that was clean. Nice laptop as well Toshiba Satellite L53 I think the model was i5, 8Gb Ram W10 64 bit, fairly light and slim.
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    Didn't know there was an update for DietPi, haven't checked it all week, it's sitting there running I have Ethernet lights on it so there must be life :)


    Brexit footnote; here's one reason why this is bad idea

    Whilst I have this resolved and it's now running and containers reinstalled, I found something I can't explain thanks to Cockpit. Looking in Cockpit -> Services -> Sockets I find dcoker.socket not-found/inactive (dead) not found (Reason: No such file or directory)


    Does this mean that this is no longer being used or it simply, for whatever reason has not been installed?

    Maybe its the only way to do it (when ZFS-code is on the disk)

    :thumbup::thumbup: There is a slightly quicker way, but this zfs signature has appeared a couple on the forum and it seems to point drives used in synology or qnap, but they seem to show up in omv 4. Well at least it's sorted, well done, and the wife gets the living room back :)

    The current situation is poor. At times, one can type and it takes the laptop a couple seconds to catch up. (That's no exaggeration.)

    Wow that's not good, looks as if i might get another laptop tonight, apparently it shutdown after getting hot now it appears it doesn't want to get to a login screen :(


    As a side noe I find it difficult sometimes explaining to the wife about computers -> she brought a laptop home from school (16 of them have been ignored by their new IT provider) it seemed that everyone assumed that these laptops were not working. So bring one home to me to have a look, it's perfectly Ok, erased W7 and installed a vanilla W10 Pro (no licence key) no software -> it works. So the wife has finally spoken to the head and she also assumed they dead, so wife has explained she took one home and I have wiped it (this is difficult part will explain) and installed W10, so she's surprised but how long would it take for the IT company to set these up as they charge £300 per day!! 8o I installed that laptop, including updates in a couple of hours, the bank of 16 should take no more than a day and that's if they install across the network (PXE Boot)


    The difficulty I have is explaining "wiped" to her, any school pc's have to be wiped before being removed or sold on, I'm trying to get her to understand that by installing W10 I wipe the disk (I delete the partitions) but their understanding of wiped is shredding leaving a blank drive. Needless to say the discussion started to get heated as she couldn't grasp what I was trying to explain, why should she, she's a teacher not an IT tech.


    The other problem she has in school is her interactive flat panel they connect via hdmi, now these can be a PITA if certain things aren't in place, the IT company have told the school the hard drives failing on her laptop, hence sometimes the flat panel and the laptop play nice sometimes they don't -> my response to that was "well they obviously don't know their head from their a**** because it's not the hard drive"


    Got my Docker sorted finally!! not it's not displaying any error messages when I run systemctl status docker, I'm sure there was some residual containers floating around even though they weren't showing. Now I'm running just what I need with no 'fluffy bits' :D

    Apologies for yet another input into here, but I decided to remove the plugin and reinstall as I was unable to resolve error I was seeing.


    Removed all the containers, removed the plugin, ran apt clean, reinstalled plugin -> error docker not found
    1. So disabled Docker CE repo, apt clean, re enabled Docker CE repo
    2. Installed plugin -> docker not found


    I have completed the above 1 & 2 twice and still the same, but took some screen shots



    I'm not sure what to try next?



    There are a number of options you can turn off in W10, takes some digging, Task Manager is a help I couldn't believe Disk access after making a number of tweaks it now drops off not long after boot. Memory usage can be high but that is mainly down to browser usage.

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    root@openmediavault:~# wipefs -n /dev/sdb
    offset               type
    ----------------------------------------------------------------
    0x200                gpt   [partition table]
    
    
    0xe8e0d3f000         zfs_member   [filesystem]

    Crap!! I bet that is on all of them! Ok, I'm signing off now but this explains why you are having problems, it is fixable but it will take some time.


    But you could connect the other drives and do the same on them and post the output but replace /dev/sdb with /dev/sd(drive reference letter) could be c or d etc.

    Given what's in the Win10 thread, at least 2 users experienced the same problem where the security policy edit "fixed" it (so to speak).

    Yes, but one those users did have W10 Enterprise, which according to the MS link the gpedit is the only way to resolve it, I don't think Molok specified his version of W10, and knowing most windows uses they find something and apply it, if it works then to them it's a "fix" which IMHO for an end user running W10 Home is not something MS would expect them to be doing.


    In any case, setting a hosts file entry should completely negate the host name to IP address mapping issue, if the OS utilized it as the override/user defined default it was originally intended to be.

    W10 does do that, but as you point out it's a PITA it does require some sort of 'root' admin right, I edited mine and was able to change the security settings, because I know what I'm doing, the average end user doesn't.


    Since some users turn off updates or only allow approved updates

    Best of luck with that in W10, I have yet to find a way to do that, you can delay them, you can adjust the time it restarts but unless you're in domain environment using WSUS those updates will eventually be deployed.


    Each of the hoops, in that oversized how-to, addressed at least one potential issue that blocked access to SMB shares, at some point in time

    Yes they did, but didn't that come from issues related to the Creators Update, which, if I remember caused havoc and the MS forums were a minefield to get through, that is why at one point I stopped using it.


    The option I posted just works, and working on the KISS principle I would have thought would be a suitable option for most users. What they complain about is the fact that OMV or any other Linux distro using SMB just doesn't show up in File Manager -> Network. They're not interested in the techno stuff they want a solution -> yesterday, and they assume because they use Windows it's not that that is at fault!


    Sorry that was a rant.


    I'll do the Brexit thing tomorrow...getting late here "Time for bed said Zebedee" (That's a saying from a child's TV programme many moons ago :) )