Here’s the answer to the tricky part:

Fuse is a little special (I’m sure for good reason) in that it doesn’t like other people running it. Whenever I would mount the remote directory via SSHFS it would work fine for the virtual machine, but I could never successfully share it out via Samba. It turns out that Fuse wasn’t letting Samba gain access because Samba runs as a different user than the user that mounted the file system.

The fix:

Edit /etc/fuse.conf so that the line “user_allow_other” is uncommented (or, if the file isn’t there, touch it and then add the line).

Then mount the SSHFS to the directory that you are sharing via Samba. The key part is that you must use the “allow_other” option.

For example: $ sshfs example.com:/media/alpha /media/remotessh/ -o allow_other

That fixed it for me. If that still doesn’t work, double check your samba config file to make sure the permissions, passwords, etc are all configured properly and that your user account is added to the “fuse” group. For reference: My server is running Ubuntu 10.10 and my client VM is running Ubuntu 11.04. Good luck!

http://www.wynia.org/ was a great help for me figuring this out.

For my setup I am using software RAID/LVM and not the built in RAID abilities of the card. If you want to use the card instead, it will map the entire array to a single “hard drive” in linux, such as a 4TB RAID 5 array mapped only to /dev/sdb

This is the highpoint website for the series of cards: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr2600.htm

Follow these commands:

$ mkdir highpoint-raid-stuff    #You can call the folder whatever you like
$ cd highpoint-raid-stuff/
$ wget http://www.support-highpoint-tech.com/Main/rr26xx/268x/Linux/opensrc/rr268x-linux-src-v1.4-091124-1558.tar.gz tar xzf rr268x-linux-src-v1.4-091124-1558.tar.gz
$ cd rr268x-linux-src-v1.4/product/rr2680/linux/
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo modprobe rr2680

Next, create a file called rr2680.sh in the /etc/init.d folder

Edit the file so that it contains the following text, then save it.

#!/bin/sh
modprobe rr2680
exit 0

Then run the following command:

$ sudo ln rr2680.sh /etc/rc3.d/rr2680.sh

After that, the server should automatically load the new driver each time it boots and you should be able to access all of the drives connected to it. I hope this helped!

The guide found at ubuntu-tutorials.com was very helpful. In short, simply use “apt-get install tor” to install the software and then edit /etc/tor/torc to change all the settings. It is required to give your endpoint a unique nickname. Read the config file and you’ll be fine. You can then use “sudo /etc/init.d/tor start” to start Tor and “tail -f /var/log/tor/log” to check the status.

If Apache is giving you trouble, or you should screw up the config files beyond recognition, it is possible to wipe Apache out completely and then re-install it. If you’re just playing around with the server this can save you a lot of time. The command to remove apache2 completely is “apt-get remove –purge apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils ssl-cert” You can then reinstall apache using the default values with “apt-get install apache2″ It’s very simple once you know what some of the tricks are

The command I used is very simple:

# tune2fs -m 0 /dev/md0

Where /dev/md0 is the partition you are configuring. For more help check out the manual page for tune2fs  (# man tune2fs  )

Let’s start off with a single computer connected directly to the internet (with a cable or DSL modem, or something).


All traffic on the internet connection is able to pass directly from the internet to the computer. Since the computer is the only device connected (via the modem) there is no need for NAT or port forwarding. Applications on the computer can access any port on the internet, and any computer on the internet can access ant port on the local computer (since in this example there is no firewall). This is the simplest way to connect a single computer to the internet, but since most ISPs only give you one IP address, chances are that you can only have one computer connect at a time. In order to have multiple computers connected to the internet using only one IP address, Network Address translation and Port Forwarding systems were created.

This diagram shows our sample network, with an internet address of (98.52.143.18).

The only device visible from the Internet’s point of view is the router. At this point the internet has no idea that the router is connected to four other computers.

When multiple computers are connected on the same local area network, there must be a router for them to be able to connect to the internet using only one Internet addressable address. Since all of the traffic from the internet is now addressed to only one IP (the router’s), a system had to be created to determine which computer (A,B,C, or D) a packet of data is supposed to go to. The router keeps a list of which computers are connecting to the internet using which ports, and when an incoming packet has a port number that matches what is in the list, it forwards it to that computer. The diagram bellow shows one pathway that is created between computer A and a device on the internet. It is important to note that a computer on the LAN must initiate the connection. If a device on the internet tried to initiate a connection, the only thing it would be able to reach is the router, as the router would not know which computer (A,B,C, or D) to forward the packet or connection to.

This diagram shows how multiple computers can use the internet at the same time, all on different ports on the internet.

I know that this is not a complete explanation, and might have a few errors, so be sure to check out the Wikipedia page if you want more information about this stuff.

Then run the utility with:
iostat
You can also set it to automatically refresh by putting the number of seconds to refresh in after the command. For example, to refresh every five seconds, type:
iostat 5

This is an awesome conversion program that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux that was originality designed to rip DVDs to your hard drive. This open source gem also has a knack for transcoding h.264 video files. Even beter it does so using multiple threads, unlike the script that I was using before. If you have a need to convert AVCHD (or .MTS) files, I seriously recommend it.

“The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md0 (Invalid argument). This means Linux won’t know anything about the modifications you made until you reboot. You should reboot your computer before doing anything with /dev/md0.”

This was followed by an identical error for /dev/md1. I’m still not sure of exactly what caused the error, but the quick fix I used was to hit the ESC key after the errors take place, wait for the menu to show up (the computer wants to install the base system first), then without changing anything else, set up the RAID partition that you are installing the OS, and don’t modify the swap partition or anything else like that. When I did this I still got the error for /dev/md1, but I did not get one for /dev/md0, which is what I am installing the OS to.

Bam. Done.