This weekend I received my new NAS server, a Sarotech Wizplat NAS-20. After installing my two 1TB in it to build a RAID array, I soon noticed the following:
- my old (bricked) Giganas configuartion, which was still on the disks, was being read, but only partially working. I had to remove the partitions from the disk in my PC, install them back in the NAS before being able to configure them in the NAS
- The NAS is making less Noise than my Raidsonic Icy Box 4220
- The webinterface look and feel of the Icybox and the NAS-20 s very similar
- Out of the box the NAS-20 however has less functionality; no twonkey server, no DHCP server, no SSH-server – Of which I mostly disliked the lack of a UPnP media streaming service.
But, after spending some time googling, I found a very good piece of software called Fonz Fun-Plug (or FFP).
Following the instruction from this page, I had a working ffp with mediatomb up and running in no time.
I’m at the moment fine-tuning the configuration, but think I will soon be able to migrate all my media over to this NAS, and use it as my primary server.
Next topics on the wishlist (to be able to retire my old Linksys UnSlung-2) is a LDAP server.
Since last week I am now the proud owner of a German 1&1 Homeserver 50.000, in fact a rebranded AVM Fritzbox 7390 in a different color.
After some initial configuration challenges, my VDSL2 connection is up and running now for a little more than 1 day.
I was now able to unplug some devices, because all functions were taken over by the new Fritzbox:
Sagem 3464 – Only acting as bridge
Firtzbox 7170 – Providing my PPPOE connectivity
Cisco 837 – Acting as DHCP server, because of being able to pass options (like TFTP server info) to the clients.
I have the new 7390 now running with Freetz additions, to be able to use DNSMASQ and some other packages.
A thank you to:
Philippe for providing some tips through the userbase.be forum
The Freetz team for providing this brilliant piece of software
It has taken me some time to get the 1und1 Smartdrive to work correctly under Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick through webdav. Capturing the steps here, to remind myself and share with the community.
Most of this info is created by testing, trial and error, using pieces of information found on the internet and the man pages.
1) Install davfs2 (via synaptic or command line: sudo apt-get install davfs2)
2) Allow users to mount by setting this option through this program
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2"
3) Create folder /media/1und1 (sudo mkdir /media/1und1)
4) Edit /etc/fstab by adding this line
https://sd2dav.1und1.de /media/1und1 davfs user,noauto,rw 0 0
5) Edit /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf, changing the following line:
a) from: # ignore_home # system wide config file only
to: ignore_home kernoops # system wide config file only
b) from: # if_match_bug 0
to: if_match_bug 1
6) Edit /etc/davfs2/secrets, adding the line with credentials
https://sd2dav.1und1.de kaxxxx-xxx@online.de your-password
7) Add yourself to the user-group davfs2
(System -> Administration -> Users and Groups)
You can now mount /media/1und1 to your 1und1 Smartdrive as user
Besides CoppermineSC, this is another plugin for Coppermine integration. Testing it a well.
The plugin itself can be found here.
Seems to offer more functionality, but strugling a little to display a full album, with spaces between the thumbnails. One by one, it all looks fine, even has filename underneath the picture, but a complete album shows up with the thumbnails directly attached to each other.
Testing the language
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Testing the language
testing the CoppermineSC plugin to see if the coppermine album (sitting on croes-album.de) will appear….
I managed to find a way to insert spaces between the thumbnails, by adding the below code to my style.css file
/* ******************** */
/* CoppermineSC classes */
/* ******************** */
.cpg_albumthumbimage {
float: left;
margin-right: 7px;
margin-bottom: 7px;
}
[cpg_album:85]
— Just a test —–
Hi,
just like we did some years ago, we would like to organize a Glühweinparty again in Germany. Temperature is low at the moment, so ideal circumstances for such an event.
Please register yourself via the forum below
The event have ended - no more registrations are allowed.
Started from scrtach today, using a fresh install of WordPress 2.7
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