Better Late Than Never, lol!

Well I did not get done everything I planned out on my todo list last week.

Oh well, such as life!

MS Sql Server  Done

Wireshark  Done

Nmap  Done

Proxmox (Kind of done, I chickened out on upgrading Proxmox from 8 to 9 but I did get it updated for 8)

Install Wazuh  (Unfortunately, this was a no go)  Need to find a system that has the resources for setup) 

Training modules for PowerShell, Linux fundamental's and Python   Done

Upgrade mini server's hard drive to an SSD  (not done due to the SSD that I have being to small) Amazon

Possible upgrade Portainer and Immich   Done

Work on using Notion as a note taking solution (?)  Done

I did get my windows server 2022 updated

I got netdata installed but still working on figuring out how to use it

I also got the mini server backed up to an image even though I was not able to get the image moved to the SSD.  The current HDD is 500 gigs and the SSD is 480 gigs.  Clonezilla did not like that for the two ways it has to image and restore to a new drive.  Oh well, I have to order a 500 gig SSD from Amazon, ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week working on getting 500 gig SSD for drive upgrade for mini server and need to work on getting Wazuh installed on a box here, fun!!!!

Trying to learn using a lot of the pentesting tools like zeek, rita, backstorm, gobuster and possibly burbsuite.

Baby steps!!!

Happy Tuesday 😀

Another Monday

New start

Things to accomplish this week

Work on the following:

MS Sql Server

Wireshark

Nmap

Proxmox

Install Wazuh

Training modules for PowerShell, Linux fundamental's and Python

Upgrade mini server's hard drive to an SSD

Possible upgrade Portainer and Immich

Work on using Notion as a note taking solution (?)

More to come

Happy Monday 😀

Printer Snafu!

Learned a lot today.  Spent 2 hours today working on my printer issue in Linux.  After changing the cups config file roughly 15 times I am finally able to print from the console page, but I did have the working after the first change, lol!  Me being me decided after I was able to print from the console page to modify the cups config file and enable Kerberos which caused a royal pain in my butt.  I wasn't locked out of the console, but I was not able to make changes to the config file from the console, granted I usually do that from the command line anyway.  Enabling Kerberos made printing and making changes from the console impossible.  So, I tried to change the file for the block of text under Kerberos.  12 + changes later I decided to look at the backup file for the config file that I had fortunately backed up before I first modified it and I was off to the races.  In the end I soon discovered in order to turn off Kerberos I had to modify the entry at the top of the file under "DefaultAuthType" and vola it was working again.  I am so glad I back up my config files before I modified them . It is worth it.  Also learned that the drivers for my printer are deprecated and will probably not work after the next upgrade of cups.  Oh well, I will have to cross that bridge when I get to it.

Happy Tuesday 😀

A New Day

Well, it is a new day, and I have made a decision on the pursuit of working on new projects.  I wasted several days trying to get the Wyze bridge project to work because all the videos I watched made it so simple to get setup in their environment.  It looks like Wyze has done something on their end to prevent this project from working.  Now I have to make sure I don't chase my tail on new projects when they don't quite work the way they are supposed to work, lol!

Lessons learned!

Happy Thursday 😬

"Uncle"

I am calling uncle on this one.  I have been working since this morning on getting the docker instance for the wyze-bridge to work and it is a no go.  I have watched several videos and followed them to the letter but it will not work for me.  I know there is something missing and all the videos I watched left a lot out when they went through their setup.  frustrating but definitely a learning experience.  I think i am going to walk away from this one and do some more research after I can get things running In know will work.  Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Live and learn  🙃

Change can be hard!!!!

Well yesterday I decided to upgrade the hard drive on my office laptop and it was a bear.  I used clonezilla and it was definitely a learning experience.  After 3 tries that took an hour and a half to run per try.  I got my laptop upgraded from a 256 gig drive to a 500 gig drive.  Now I have to do my non office laptop and my server.  I am better prepared now and hopefully it won't take 5 hours.  

Technology can sometimes suck, lol!!!!!! 

Happy Thursday 😀

Still Alive LOL!!!!!

It has been a while but I am back again.  I have been getting a lot done with my homelab over the last couple of days.  Proxmox , ADGuard Home, docker desktop, portainer and immich are updated.  Should be able to get the windows server 2022 VM on proxmox updated today then training begins.

Reminder

I was just reminded of the fact I have a blog.  Hello again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Thursday 🙂

Wild couple of weeks

The last couple of weeks have been intense to say the least.  I woke up late this morning but considering I did not go to sleep until 3:30am, waking up a 7:30 am was pretty good prospective wise.  It has been crazy the with all the behind-the-scenes activities I had to complete.  I had to work on my proxmox install with getting my vm's working again.  I decided to redo some of the vm's (server 2022, wazuh, and windows10).  It went a lot better than I thought it was going to go, which is surprising to say the least.  Trying to work on my AD troubleshooting using powershell as well as all the other stuff I am trying to ingest ( wireshark, nmap, metasploit, docker, burpsuite and bash).  So much to learn and it is definitely different from what was required for me to know at my last job.  The things I have learned so far put me light years ahead of where I was a year ago.  The philosophy of staying in my lane was a bad choice in retrospect and challenges me to do better in the future.  Being vocal and persistance should not be bad things in IT.  I promise to do better by first getting organized with my schedule.  first I need to make time for engaging in forums and all the free labs available online.  today is a turning point for me.  May the force be with me! LOL

Happy Thursday 🙂

Server Issues

Well, there seems to be an issue with the proxmox server.  I am not able to launch 2 of the vm's (windowsserver2022 and windows10test).  They were both working yesterday but will not boot today.  Unfortunately, I did not backup the windowsserver2022 so I will have to do it from scratch but the windows10test1 I did do a backup of it; well, I did snapshots.  Oh well, that gives me a chance to test restoring vm's using the snapshot if that is possible.  I can't remember if I did a backup of my AD config for windowsserver2022.  I need to check the network drive for the backup.  crossing fingers and toes

Happy Tuesday 😕