Friday Again!

It is Friday again and I am more or less done for the week.  Spent the week in online sessions for Microsoft and Blackhills Infosec.  Learned a lot during this session but yesterday was definitely off the hook.  I have been running Immich on my server for the last couple of month and it works very well for backing up photos and videos from my phone and tablet to my local server.  The issue I had with Immich a couple of weeks ago prompted me to look at another program for managing my photos and videos locally as a backup to the backup lol!  I had heard a lot about Photoprism and thought I would try it out but it was a pain to get setup on my server.  Still not setup yet but I at least know what the issue is and the solution to get it running.  Why do Linux users think that it is the solution to getting away from Windows when it is so hard to get stuff setup and running on it.  Well, unless you buy what is supposed to be free for the support.  Crazy!!!!!!!!!

I will continue to work on my homelab which I should have completed by the end of this year.  Running Plex/Jellyfin, ADGuard Home, Tailscale, Wazuh(SIEM), Twingate, Home Assistant, CrowdSec, Webmin(Deprecated), Portainer(Docker containers), Sql server, Proxmox, Microsoft Server(2016, 2019, 2022), Ubuntu Server Core 2022 and Kali Linux.

Happy Friday 😀

TGIF

It has been a long week, but I have survived it.  I had a couple of online events I attended and they were very informative.  I am playing more with Tailscale now since I had an issue the other day with my client install on my server.  The key I used to bring up my connection had expired.  I was able to figure out how to do it since it was a little different than with my chrome, IOS, android or windows setup (running in Ubuntu core lol)!  I also went and did the install of the client on my TV sticks for my office, bedroom and livingroom tv's.  Not sure when the opportunity will arise for me to use it on them but at least it is done for now.  Still learning a lot about tailscale, twingate and adguard running in my environment.  Now I need to explore the monitoring side.  Watched a lot of videos on SIEM implementations both in the cloud and on-prem.  Now it is time to pull the trigger on setup them up in my environment.  I think I will start with standing up a Wazuh server this weekend and work my way up.  I have my AD environment setup and will probably start testing it next week.  Running windows server 2022 trial edition with the possibility of rolling out a 2016 and 2019 instance in the future.  so much to learn and so little time to learn it.

Happy Friday 😀

Epic Fail

Well, Watchtower was suppose to update my twingate connector but low and behold it is not updated.  I have the twingate tokens backed up so that I can just redo it a new but I don't want to do it that way.  I need to get this Watchtower instance to do it for me.  Spend a couple of hours researching the twingate connector setup and watchtower and have learned a lot.  Watchtower is scheduled to run the update again tomorrow so I will cross my fingers.  Not sure why the logs don't show an error from when it tried it last week.  I just show that there were no failures but no updates either.  At least If I got an error, I could look into it lol.  Oh well, live and learn!

Happy Monday!

Food for thought

I am sitting here watching youtube videos and the usual tech related subjects and something dawn on me.  I have been using ADGuard on my network for the last several months and when I first rolled it out I did have an issue with it blocking content on my Google Nest that stopped it from displaying images on the screen.  Since I was pretty new to ADGuard and it is kind of new to begin with I wrote it off to a bug in the software I needed to work around.  Now that I think about it, I have several IOT devices in my house including cameras, tv sticks and Alexa.  Are they being updated on a regular basis or is ADGuard blocking access to the site they need to do their updates.  Normal I don't check them but now, I think I am going to have and check them or micro manage my ADGuard deployment per device verses through the router.  UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe I will monitor a couple of devices for now to make sure they are not having issues getting updates through ADGuard and go from there.

Here's to technology for early adopters LOL!

Happy Tuesday 😀

Another Twingate Update

Looks like you have to do manual uploads to the Immich server when using the Twingate VPN connection.  I will have to test to make sure later this evening but F.Y.I.

VLC also does not work out of the box for network shares on my server. but oh well!

Twingate Update

Well, I found out what my issue was with Twingate!  I am running ADGuard in my environment and it appears that ADGuard was blocking the url for Twingate.  Caused an issue with the network resource I setup on my Ubuntu server.  As soon as I allowed the Twingate url traffic to pass through I was able to connect to my internal resource for Twingate.  I am able to reach my server and internal network now from an external connection.  I will probably only use it if I have an issue with Tailscale since I like the way Tailscale works with not only my phone but all my TV sticks.  ADGuard is going to be the end of me, lol!

Happy Friday 😀

Troubleshooting in Linux

There is too much troubleshooting in Linux.  So many changes that breaks working services.  My resourse component in Twingate just went down today and it looks like an issue with the repository for Twingate.  Twingate had pushed out an update for both windows and linux a couple of days ago (I think yesterday).  It looks like the update for Windows went without issue since I did it yesterday and the update for Linux I did a couple of days ago with the apt update command.  I did not see any error messages so I assumed everything was okay until I ran the apt update command to today for My weekly maintenance and got the message:

Err:1 https://packages.twingate.com/apt  InRelease
  Could not connect to packages.twingate.com:443 (0.0.0.0). - connect (111: Connection refused) Could not connect to packages.twingate.com:443 (::). - connect (111: Connection refused)

I have not tested my twingate instances for this box since I don't normally use it.  Thank goodness for tailscale but I don't know what to do to fix the issue.  It looks like the repository has changed for Twingate after the update but it is not working for any new updates.  I get a 404 error message when i try to go to it in the browser.  I see a new url for the repository on the site but I am afraid to use it even after I have checked it in VirusTotal and it coming backclean.  Posted a request in Reddit and I guess I will have to wait to see if anyone responds.  Oh well, lol!

Happy Thursday 

Microsoft Ignite

Well, I am done for the day with Microsoft Ignite sessions.  It is going okay so far.  I have a full day tomorrow, so I have to make sure I get a full 8 hours of sleep lol.

Happy Tuesday

Beware of Crypto Emails

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/new-macos-malware-linked-to-north-korean-hackers/ar-AA1tHaRD?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=8c9b33cb7ae44b07acca6ebfeed57c76&ei=39

Job Hunting Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well 2 turndown this week already it is crazy.  You would think with my skillset that I would be " a fit" for a technical support position.  I have 24 years of experience doing tech from building out several call centers to maintaining their infrastructure.  I have worked in Data centers and been all over the country for PC deployment/refreshes.  I have worked on server and networking equipment and even assisted in a network refresh at the last call center I worked at in Jacksonville Texas involving replacing/installing 25 pieces of network equipment including switches, routers and firewalls.  I have worked several OS upgrades for over 300+ computers from Windows7 to Windows11(we actually skipped windows8 lol).  Not sure what the hangup is with getting employment.  I guess it is time to switch into a higher gear and step up my skillset.

I have been doing a lot of training on the BlackHills InfoSec site with attending their training videos.  Just got done with one on SOC Detection.  It was like listening to Chinese, but I was able to follow along with the presenter which was knowledgeable on the subject.  That is what I like about BlackHills Training, in that they get people that are actually doing the things they are presenting on for training.  I guess I will have to soldier on and see where this takes me.  I am somewhat don with my homelab.  I still need to get Wazuh, Nessus and  HomeAssistant setup but that is a battle for another day.  Working on learning more about powershell, sql, and ansible.  I have 2 months to the end of the year.  Time for my A game LOL!

Happy Thursday 🙂