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Samba and SELinux
by Chuck Anderson 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

If you don't have audit2why, first install it: # yum install policycoreutils-python Then you can run this command and it should tell you why it was denied and propose way to fix it: # cat /var/log/audit/audit.log* | audit2why You can check these SELinux booleans and turn on the one(s) you need, perhaps samba_enable_home_dirs or samba_export_all_ro/rw. # getsebool -a|grep -i smb smbd_anon_write --> off # getsebool -a | grep -i samba samba_create_home_dirs --> off samba_domain_controller --> off samba_enable_home_dirs --> off samba_export_all_ro --> off samba_export_all_rw --> off samba_load_libgfapi --> off samba_portmapper --> off samba_run_unconfined --> off samba_share_fusefs --> off samba_share_nfs --> off sanlock_use_samba --> off tmpreaper_use_samba --> off use_samba_home_dirs --> off virt_use_samba --> off e.g. # setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=on On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:19:24PM -0500, Mher Mnatsakanyan via WLUG wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I hope everything is well with all of you and yours. > > I have a question and need help please. > > I installed a Samba server on CentOS8 which works well. > > When I try to mount the share from that Samba server on the client side I > get a permission denied error. When I set SELinux from Enforcing to > Permissive mode it seems to be mounting and the permission denied error > goes away. Any suggestions how I can do the same with SELinux enforcing > mode? > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Respectfully, > Mher Mnatsakanyan

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Gamerzilla at GamingOnLinux
by Dennis Payne 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

I wrote an article for GamingOnLinux about the current state of Gamerzilla. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/open-source-game-achievements-with-ga… -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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Lap Top with 28 GB HD
by hammerron 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

I recently got a Dell notebook/laptop. It is smaller than a typical lap top (notebook?) and is very light in weight. The hard drive is only 28 GB ! It currently runs Windows 10 and has only 4 GB of free space on the hard drive. It seems to just hang, if I try to update the Windows 10. I am thinking of attempting to install Xubuntu to see if it runs. Tried Puppy Linux (a light weight distro) before and think I'd like to go differently. I got the machine for free so will not be disappointed if this goes nowhere. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. (I might try to do this install tonight) Ron

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Generic VGA Driver (or other VGA driver)
by gmcaplan＠gmcaplan.org 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Dear WLUG Members, Below is a question that I posted on Ask Ubuntu 8 days ago. I have received no replies, so I am now asking whether any of you might be able to help. BTW, in addition to the Diamond Stealth card, I also have a PCI Mach64 VGA card made by ATI and a PCI VGA card made by STB Systems. The STB one has a big chip made by S3 and a PROM (I think) labeled "NITRO 3D/GX EDO 1.0". Those have essentially the same problem. ************** I have added to my system a very old Diamond Stealth PCI VGA video card. That card can talk to the BIOS and display correctly on a VGA monitor (provided that I tell the BIOS that my primary graphics card is PCI-E not PCI), but it does not work in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I think I need a generic VGA driver. Here is some info from lshw: *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: 2000PV [Stingray] vendor: ARK Logic Inc physical id: 5 bus info: pci@0000:03:05.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: vga_controller configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:fdc00000-fdffffff memory:febf0000-febfffff Also, here is what happens when I try to install fglrx: sudo apt-get install fglrx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package fglrx I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks. (P.S. I think I have to set the BIOS to PCI-E because when I sent it to PCI it finds the built-in video port on my AMD CPU.)

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Wlug meeting on Thurs. Dec 10th 2020 @7pm.
by Tim Keller 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Well, we made it.. The last wlug meeting of 2020! I hope everybody has stayed healthy and safe. The meeting is going to be at our usual virtual hang out.. https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA @7pm. I don't have a topic yet, I suspect something natural will emerge. Later, Tim.

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WLUG meeting November 19th, 2020: Topic: Gamerzilla! Presenter: Dennis Payne
by Tim Keller 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Hey Everybody! We've got a virtual meeting tomorrow Thursday November 19th, 2020. Long time WLUG member Dennis Payne will be giving a presentation on Gamerzilla. http://identicalsoftware.com/gamerzilla/index.html Time: 7PM Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA As usual, expect the banter and usual delve into linux (or not!) related topics. I fully expect as usual it'll go late into the night. See ya there! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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CMYK jpeg
by Dennis Payne 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Anybody know of an easy tool to convert an image into a CMYK color space jpeg? I found an online site that works but would like to do it on my machine. Searching has only found how to do it for tiff files. -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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vagrant on debian 10 (buster) server
by John Stoffel 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Guys, Has anyone played with vagrant on Debian Buster using libvirt as the provider? I can do a 'vagrant up' of a CentOS8 box, but it never finishes since it says it's just waiting for a network. But I have a virbr1 running with 192.168.121.0/24 subnet, and I can ping the new vagrant box at 192.168.121.18 without a problem. I can even fire up a VNC viewer and connect to the console and see that it's up and it's gotten an IP address. All I'm doing is: mkdir /scatch/vagrant vagrant box add centos/7 --provider=libvirt vagrant box add centos/8 --provider=libvirt cd /scratch/vagrant mkdir centos8 cd centos8 vagrant init centos/8 vagrant up I've got dnsmasq running on my server, and it looks to be giving out IPs on that subnet properly. Stupid VM just sits at: root@quad:/scratch/vagrant/centos8# vagrant reload ==> default: Halting domain... ==> default: Starting domain. ==> default: Waiting for domain to get an IP address... And then nothing. The console is fine, I can VNC into it and login as the root user with the password of 'vagrant' and see that the network is up, etc. Going nuts trying to make this work. John

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Hey Everybody! NO MEETING TOMORROW! Meeting next Thursday (11/19/2020)
by Tim Keller 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Our next WLUG meeting is Nov 19th, 2020. I've pushed the meeting out a week because I have a prior engagement and frankly this second Thursday snuck up on me. As an aside, are people happy with the Thursday meeting or would a different day in the week work better for people? I'll let you know more details when I get them. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Upcoming Online Conferences
by Dennis Payne 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

Linux App Summit is this week. I will be giving a lightning talk on Gamerzilla. https://linuxappsummit.org/ This is followed next week by the MiniDebConf. I will be giving another talk on Gamerzilla at that event. https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/ -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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Reminder: Virtual meeting, October 15th, 2020!
by Tim Keller 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Hey Everybody, We've got a virtual wlug meeting on Thursday October 15th, 2020! Time: 7pm Date: Oct 15th, 2020 Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: As usual TBD. I will show off my CNC machine and where I'm at with it, but besides that, I expect the usual level of banter. Hope to see some familiar faces and new ones as well! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Simple Disc Room
by Dennis Payne 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Bored? Feel the need to go to a room and dodge spinning blades? I have the solution: http://identicalsoftware.com/simplediscroom/SimpleDiscRoom.html Arrow keys move. Don't touch the blades. What is this you ask? Disc Room is a new game coming out (closed source). I stumbled on the Disc Room Game Jam to promote the game. A game jam is sort of a contest. You have a short period of time 24 hour up to generally a month to develop a game. They generally have a theme you need to incorporate and possibly other restrictions. They may or may not have a prize or even judging. Disc Room Game Jam wants people to develop disc room like in their game. They released a simple disc room written in Game Maker, a closed source game development program. I decided to use the time to learn Godot, an open source game development program. I recreated their sample with only slight changes. The version on my web site doesn't have the update with sounds at the moment. If you want to edit it: https://github.com/dulsi/SimpleDiscRoom You will need Godot 3.2. (Which is not in Fedora 32 so I've been using a beta of Fedora 33 in a virtual machine.) Would people be interested in a presentation on Godot? -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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SBC Options for Network Router
by David Glaser 17 Oct '20

17 Oct '20

Hi Folks, I would like to build my own network router/gateway and I would like some feedback regarding options. I would like to separate the WIFI from the router. I plan on buying multiple Wireless Access Points to handle WIFI within the house and WIFI in the back yard. The backyard WAP will be powered over Ethernet. Also I want a router distribution that give me lots of flexibility in what I can install and is kept up to date with regard to security. It looks like my choices for distributions are dd-wrt, openwrt, and tomahto (tomato). Any thoughts? So far the only hardware option that I have encountered is Seeed Studio's ODYSSEY – X86J4105. It comes with a case and a power supply. The project is described in https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2020/02/24/how-to-build-your-own-openwrt-r… Again, any suggestions on which SBC would be a good candidate? -David -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Reminder: Virtual Meeting Tomorrow!
by Tim Keller 11 Oct '20

11 Oct '20

Hey Gang, We've got a virtual meeting tomorrow here: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Starting at 7pm until you know whenever.. I fully expect like our last meetings, it'll go off the rails and we'll end up talking about Linux and filesystems, and 3d printers and sci-fi and in general just a bunch of nerds reveling in our nerdom. See you tomorrow! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Try #2! Next WLUG Meeting is Oct. 15th!!
by Tim Keller 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Hey Everybody, let's try this again! I have a conflict on the 8th and the second week of October snuck up on me. We will be having the meeting *October 15th, 2020!* Sorry for any confusion the last confusing email created! Thanks, TIm. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Next WLUG Meeting! Oct 15th NOT the 8th.
by Tim Keller 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Hey Everybody, I've decided to push the meeting off to the 8th. This is mainly because the second week of October snuck up on me and because I have conflict that night. Hopefully by then I'll have a little project I've been working on ready to show off. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Ubuntu update question
by THE HAMMER 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Hello everyone. Thank again for all the recent advice. I have one question. I installed Ubuntu (from a 20.04 flash drive I did a while back) and checked the option to download additional software. It was then up and running. I then had updates available. They were installing, and then the computer said a restart was needed. I clicked restart and rather than restart as expected it went to what I think was a grub menu. Ubuntu was highlighted, I hit the enter key. It said "unpacking failed" (forget if before or after) and started up. Everything seems to be fine, but I am sending this email in case if anyone knows if I will have problems. I tried googling "Ubuntu unpacking failed" and se references to initramfs, but can't say if my message said this. It flashed quickly. I'm confused on what I read there anyway. FYI on the bios to make things work I changed: PTT to off Secure Boot Enable to off Changed RAID to AHCHI The machine seems blazing fast compared to the previous one. Materials much more cheaply made, though. Surprised me that there was no Windows CD or label with license number. cheers Ron

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desktop advice update
by THE HAMMER 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

First off, thanks to everyone for the great advice. It's rather a long story for another day, but I wound up picking up this model: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-inspiron-3000-desktop-intel-core-i5-10400… [https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6416/6416004…]<https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-inspiron-3000-desktop-intel-core-i5-10400…> Dell Inspiron 3000 Desktop Intel Core i5-10400 8GB Memory 1TB HDD Ethernet WiFi Bluetooth keyboard and mouse Black i3880-5920BLK-PUS - Best Buy<https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-inspiron-3000-desktop-intel-core-i5-10400…> Shop Dell Inspiron 3000 Desktop Intel Core i5-10400 8GB Memory 1TB HDD Ethernet WiFi Bluetooth keyboard and mouse Black at Best Buy. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Price Match Guarantee. www.bestbuy.com There are way bigger and badder machines out there, this one should still has way more to offer that what is replacing. I have experience distro hopping and before had no worries about installing a linux distro on a pc, but they have always been older machines. I presume that the one will have uefi which is something I have never worked with. I am a bit apprehensive and hope I can figure it all out without major problems. I hope to get this all up and running tonight or over the weekend. Ron

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desktop advice
by THE HAMMER 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

I want to consider getting a new desktop computer. Can anyone advise me as to a specific model and place to purchase from? It's been a long time since I've bought new. I would be using it mostly for emails, a few general apts (like music streams and libre office), and a bit of amateur coding. I am not a gamer. If it is a windows machine, I'd like to load on a linux based os Suggestions? Ron

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Mini Debian Conference Online #2
by Dennis Payne 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Debian is running a mini online conference in Nov. It is specifically about gaming. I've offered a talk on Gamerzilla, my open source achievement system for games. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline2 -- Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi

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Thanks everybody, last nights virtual meeting was great!
by Tim Keller 13 Sep '20

13 Sep '20

Hey Everybody, The mailing list is working again, thanks Chuck! Last night's meeting was great! It was fun to nerd out with everybody. Unless things drastically change, I suspect we'll be virtual for October as well. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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this is a test
by Chuck Anderson 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

This is a test of the WLUG email list. This is only a test. If this had been an actual post, the subject line you just read would have been followed by official news, information, or random Linux blather. This concludes this test of the WLUG list. .

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Administrivia - WLUG Mailing List
by Chuck Anderson 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Sorry everyone. We had more spam problems on the WLUG Mailing List last night, and in the process of trying to remove that user I accidentally removed everyone. I partly blame the poor Admin user interface of Postorius--it has a "Unsubscribe All" button at the top of the Member list even if that list has been filtered and says "List Members (1)" due to the filter. So it is easy to misinterpret "All" as being just the Members that are currently listed due to the filter. I went through a backup of the member list I have from 2018, edited the list based on all the subscription/remove requests since then, and resubscribed everyone who hadn't removed themselves since. I could have missed some email addresses, so I apologize if you have been accidentally resubscribed when you shouldn't have been--feel free to email me directly and I'll fix that. I could have also missed some new subscriptions, so if you know someone who should be subscribed but complains that they are no longer receiving posts, please let them know to resubscribe. I'm not sure if each user's subscription options have been retained, so if you had set no email delivery or digest mode for example, you may have to reconfigure that. Finally, I have configured the mailing list to require moderator approval for new membership requests and posts from all existing members until I know that the member isn't a spammer. Over the next few days I'll be going through the member list and unsetting moderation on "known good" members.

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recent post, Technocopia, hybrid meetings
by Chuck Anderson 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

I removed & banned the drive-by-spammer. Here is Technocopia's website for those interested: https://technocopia.org/ I like the idea of Hybrid meetings--some participants remote and some in-person. It's hard to do well, though. Does Technocopia have a videoconferencing setup with an in-room camera/mic system, projector, and PC that could join Jitsi? Maybe we could help them set one up.

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Great News! Technopia is now open to the public!
by Tim Keller 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Hey Gang, I just checked the website and Technopia is now open to the public. So... not this meeting, but hopefully the next one we can have in person! Please let me know how you feel about physical meetings. I'm amenable to waiting another month or two if people are still weary. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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