Lord Help Me!!!!!!!!!

Okay, LOL!

This morning, I thought I would update my Proxmox server to the current version 8.3.3 from 8.3.0.  You would think that would be an easy process@@@@@@@@@@@@.  Not in my instance.  This is why you should not assume instructions you are following on the internet are 100% correct.  Let's see, I made all the modifications to the necessary files for the no subscription version of Proxmox and ran the apt update command and got a gpt error for the InRelease file.  So silly me copied the command I found online into the ssh session and ran it, thinking that would sign the file and fix the problem.  I saw a couple of message pop up for it but didn't think much of it.  I again ran the apt update command and still got the same error message about gpt file InRelease.  UGH!!!!

I spent the next hour looking in forums and watching youtube videos of users that modified the source repository files and got this thing to kick off without incident.  Finally, I took a good long look at the url I was using for the wget command and low and behold it had https instead of http.  Now I am thinking to myself that can't be the fix for the issue lol!  Well, that resolved the problem and the update and dist-upgrade commands ran without error.  I am now on 8.3.3 for my Proxmox version and I can definitely say I learned something from this exercise.  Even when you are copying and pasting content check the syntax if it is not running correctly.

Happy Thursday 🙂  

Interesting Day

It has been an interesting day so far.  I spent the day watching a lot of videos for 7 hours and I also worked on the Proxmox server.  It is finally at the point for me to start installing VM's and LXC's containers.  It took about an hour to work through the issue with Proxmox not seeing the VM/LXC drive storage.  Now to build a couple of lab networks to do my playing with security training and AD training.  I perfer to have 2 separate networks and possible a third network for the monitoring box.  Hopefully by the end of next week I will have everything ready to go.  Hope to learn a lot this week since I have definitely learned a lot so far lol!

Happy Tuesday 🙂

I might be a dumb dumb LOL!

Well, I got Proxmox installed, and I thought I did the setup right but not so much!  I went to try and download the templates to create the LXC container and I could not get them to download.  I thought that was weird since I was able to copy the iso from my laptop over to the server which meant it could not be an issue with the network connection, right lol!  Well, again not so much.  Things to note for future reference, when it has been a while since you have run through a setup for a tool/app pay attention to the setup instructions and don't assume it is the same as it was the last time you ran through the setup.  Apparently, I missed the portion of the setup which asked for the gateway info because it was not in the format of ip address, subnet mask and gateway.  so silly me put the subnet mask info in for the gateway info and I had to modify the network connection manually to fix my internet connection from that box, but it is working now.  Live and learn my friends live and learn!

I might wait until Monday to install my VM's and LXC containers.  I want to setup Wazuh or Nessus plus EVE-NG.  Next week is going to be very interesting and eventful lol!

Happy Friday 🙂

Crazy Thursday!!

Well, it has been a crazy day, but it is almost over.  I spent an hour and a half getting Proxmox installed on my server and all kinds of crazy was occurring with it.  When I used the thumb drive with Ventoy on it sometimes the server would recognize the drive and boot to the menu but not completely load Proxmox for install.  Other time it would not recognize the iso file for Proxmox and it was doing this back and forth the whole time.  The thumb drive was fine since I was able to read it on my laptop in which I deleted the Proxmox iso and downloaded it again for the download page and copied to the thumb drive again.  I tried uefi boot as well as legacy boot and the same thing.  I tried normal boot in Ventoy and grub2 boot and still it would get to the Proxmox setup screen but when it tried to read from the iso it was a no go.  Finally, after an hour I thought let's try booting from the cdrom drive and see if I can get that to work and "bob's your uncle" it let me install Proxmox on that box.  That should have not been that hard but like I said, crazy Thursday.  Now I have the task of getting it configured and getting my VM's and LXC containers loaded on it.  I might wait until tomorrow to get that task completed lol.

Like they say, " what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".  Now I need to push ahead.

Happy Thursday 🙂

 

Long couple of days!!!!

Well, I had a pipe burst in my frontyard for water to my house.  It happened on Thursday afternoon but I did not get it fixed until Monday morning.  Unfortunately, I was not able to fix it myself which is why it took so long to resolve.  I had to call a plumber, and they weren't available for a couple of days.  I had to go without water in my house from Thursday until yesterday.  It made for a stressful couple of days and then there is the cost for the fix.  It cost me 350 dollars of money I don't have but I had to get it fixed.  I of course did not get anything else done for the last couple of days, so I have a lot of catching up in the next few days.  I did get some stuff done last week but not everything I needed to for the4 week.

I finished the buildout of the proxmox server but I need to get my Virtual and LXC containers rebuilt.  I want to get Wazuh, Jellyfin, Plex, Windows server 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025, and EVE-NG.  Time to get "crack-el-lacken"!

Happy Tuesday 🙂

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 😀