Category: Useful Items That I Forget

Tunneling a Windows/Samba Share over SSH with PuTTY

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Here are my notes for tunneling a samba share to a local computer between two locations. A little background: The server site is running a Debian Linux server with openssh. This server acts as a firewall running iptables. There is another host… more »

Debian Backports

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Here's stuff that I forget. Like how to install something from Debian backports. apt-get install debian-backports-keyring apt-get -t etch-backports install package-name http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions Don't forget to… more »

DTMF in Asterisk

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Had a small issue today with a GXP-2000 where Asterisk wasn't correctly hearing the digits dialed for a user's voicemail. It couldn't pick up the username with a "Couldn't read username" error when using sip set debug peer peername. Turned out that the… more »

Default Editor in Debian Etch

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Somehow it appears that the default editor got switched to Nano on the upgrade from Debian Sarge to Etch. At least I think it did. I would certainly remember having to use Nano before and would've been sufficiently annoyed to change that. I messed u… more »

No word lists can be found for the language en_us

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During the Debian dist-upgrade from sarge to etch, I uninstalled aspell and associated packages on one of my servers. So, when I got around to installing it again, it apparently didn't install a language or word list. Trying to run a spell check from m… more »
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