Goal for today!

I need to at least get proxmox stood up today.  Also need to work on tryhackme challenge for today and make up for missing one yesterday.  My goal for this year is to at least complete one a day.

Happy Thursday 🙂

Working!!

Let's see, I am trying to get through most of the tryhackme modules which are really making me think hard lol.  I have all my classes scheduled for the week and several online classes scheduled/queued up for the week.  I also got a box setup for running proxmox which I will get installed this week.  Then setup another lab that I can actually play with since I consider my current homelab more production and would prefer not to fubar it lol!  I need to get objects setup for my AD environment which I may do this week or next week so I can start playing with it after I back it up of course.  I am not mletting the lack of responses from my job postings get me down.  If I can get a couple of certs done in the next couple of months, I should have a better leg to stand on.

Here's to the rest of the week!

Happy Tuesday😀 

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh man, I have spent the last 45 minutes trying to troubleshoot my on-prem server connection issue.  I wake my laptop up to check my email and I am not able to connect to any of the services I have running on my server.  I first thought it was an issue with the network connection on the laptop, but I am able to access my email and YouTube and other websites are coming up for me (ADGuard off the hook this time, lol).  So, I reboot the server and go to check again and still unable to connect to any service I have running on the server, weird!  So, I rebooted the server again and this time I watch it come up from the console and I see no error messages on it starting up.  I then verify the ip address and make sure all my docker instances are up and running and they were all showing okay so "wt*".  so, I think maybe it is with the laptop so I reboot it and still not able to access the server but wait I get a prompt to authenticate with twingate on the laptop and then to myself that can't be it.  I am locally connected to my network even if my twingate connection wasn't validated It would not keep me from connecting to the server, right!  Well, I was proven wrong because as soon as I authenticated my twingate connection boom, my connection to the server was restored.  I can't make this stuff up, lol!  Well, I have learned something new this evening.  Remember that I only have a 30 day token on my twingate validation and it does affect my connection to my server.  Lesson learned.

Happy Sunday 😀

Linux is crazy

Well, the last 3 weeks I have noticed that when I was running the apt update command in ubuntu for my server is was showing that jellyfin needed to be updated but when I ran the apt upgrade command to update all packages needing an upgrade it would not update the server for jellyfin.  I checked the source file for the server and everything appeared to be correct but still it would not update.  Weird!  So today i get in the forum again join the jellyfin discord.  I am looking in the forum and one of the users showed a command that I had not seen before but look like it would run.  I guess I had not never consider specifying what package I need to upgrade and low and behold it worked again weird.  It should have worked the other way but I will take my wins where I can get them lol!  I also had to make a change to ADGuard again.  Even though I was able to access Facebook on my laptop and phone it would not work on my iPad.  Disable ADGuard and low and behold it worked on the iPad.  Went in and unblocked everything for facebook for the last 10 minutes and no issues so far.  I definitely need to hone up on my Linux skills.

Lesson learned 😀

Happy Friday!

Well it is Friday again!

I only got one good thing done this week. I have to hope that next week is more productive lol!  Let me see what I can get done today.  Maybe I can savage this week.

Happy Friday 😀