So I recently tried to remove my Application Dataset on my TrueNAS scale NAS. It was just annoying seeing it constantly when i didn’t have any applications running through TrueNAS so went to remove it and it said it was busy. I thought that can’t be right I know there are no applications installed so I spent a while online and found out how to force remove the dataset and I did. ...
I started by cloning my windows VM template and that went fine my next job was to see what games I could share. Steam was easy apart from the amount of times I had to log in and out to make it work. And Xbox was even quicker with me just signing into microsoft store with my account and into xbox the the second account (the only game this doesn’t work for is minecraft java). The VM is only using integrated graphics however I will probably pass through my current gpu when I upgrade. But it can run most 2d games but struggles at games like minecraft and rocket league. ...
I decided I wanted to be able to get emails from my services as that is the mail method most of them support. For my mail server i decided to use mailcow rather than try to stitch together my own group of programs. The install was easy with no errors by simply just using a Docker compose file. Its smtp work fine with TrueNAS, Pterodactyl, Nextcloud, Proxmox and Passbolt however i could not get it working with Mealie. ...
One of the main reasons I was so happy with the server I got was the fact it included a DVD drive. This was very useful as the last DVD drive I had been using was in a old laptop and stopped working a few months earlier. I downloaded and extracted makemkv in a nfs share on my proxmox host os. I can then run the command “makemkvcon mkv dev:/dev/sr0 all .” this rips the disk to my nas which then allows me to put it though handbrake on a windows 11 vm.
Today I set up my DDNS for my domains that need to link to my dynamic public ip address. I followed this guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI-XxnyWFnM by NetworkChuck which worked amazingly. I didn’t want to run it on its own vm so I made a ubuntu container in Proxmox and apart from mixing up api and global api keys I managed everything first try.
I began by trying to install pterodactyl as 2 separate containers on my main docker VM however this ended up having far to many issues for me to try and solve. My next idea was to use the ubuntu container and install them in there however this also didn’t work. In the end i just created a new VM and using this script (https://github.com/pterodactyl-installer/pterodactyl-installer). Which after a bit of fiddling with the ssl record and making the panel and the wing have unique domains then it finally worked. I also made sure that the servers are stored on a nfs share for easy backups. ...
I chose to use Pi hole for ad blocking and local dns as it has a large community and I have used it in the past. The install went fine and then i used http://firebog.net to get a list of ad blocks. The only issues I have run into is that I blacklisted a google link that stopped a lot of surchs i did and that it only prompts you to re loggin after you fail to do something. ...
I began by creating a VM and adding a nfs share however my first attempt I installed Docker with the Ubuntu installer this lead to a wide range of problems so justed deleted the VM and started again. On my next attempt I made sure to only install docker after using apt install. I managed to get Portainer to work first try and then just had to move my old containers off my PC, this was not to bad as i just moved the files to the network share and then translated the compose files to the Portainer container options (I later found out that i could do it with docker compose files and switched most of them to that).
The install for TrueNAS was very simple as it was something i had practiced multiple times as a VM on my PC to mess around with smb shares. I decided to install scale as the choice between core and scale seemed very easy for me as i felt that while core was a small bit faster scale had a far more promising future and had plenty of people working to improve its speed. ...
For christmas 2023 i got a second hand R720 from ebay i cost around £150 it has: 2 E5-2690 v2s for a total of 20 cores at 3 GHz; 256gb of ram; duel 10gig sfp+ ports; and 16x900gb 2.5" sas hdds (However only 2 drive sleds). My plan for this server was to use proxmox to build an environment that gave me space to run some useful services as well as mess around with new software. ...