The VM is pretty lightweight, I give it 2 cores and 2gb of ram, though looking it's only using 102m of ram with everything running, but my current pc is loaded with ram, so I don't much split harirs these days. -mb On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:49 AM Jim wrote: > Thanks for the advice. I'll have to do some more reading to understand > all that well enough to try it myself, and get some cash together before I > buy a computer that will support all that. > > I have a Dell 32 bit dinosaur (wallace kubuntu 14) and this computer > (ladmo kubuntu 18 64 bit). I have apache2 on wallace so I can share the > occasional file with friends. Instead of taking a short sound clip and > making a video out of it so I can share it with friends on facebook, I just > put it on wallace and give them the url. I also keep copies of my pictures > and music collection on wallace. So I have /var/www/html on wallace and > the user account on wallace mounted on ladmo via nfs. I also have an ssh > server on wallace so I can access it from ladmo and so I can transfer files > between my phone and wallace via sftp. I had wallace connected to the > router via the 100 mbit nic built into it until Saturday when I found a > gigabit nic in the cabinet where I keep boxes of parts. > > Good luck with your setup Michael. I would suspect nobody knows what > you're doing online except the CIA. :-) > > On 09/19/2018 10:34 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > > I use transmission-daemon as a server on the vm with the vpn, and connect > to the server on port 9091 with a transmission-remote client on your local > lan workstation. The vpn should override your default routing, and make > sure to kill ipv6 as a sysctl too. I setup a dns for the local server ip > running the transmission server, and make it available on a bridged > interface to the rest of my lan. I use stickshift on my phone to > manage/view them then. I usually run squid socks proxy on it too, using a > proxy switcher on chrome as an extension to flip between on and off use out > that connection as well. > > For extra credit, I setup unbound to do encrypted dns to cloudflare on it > via some google tutorials, and I use zerotier as a link all my servers and > clients into a local-ish lan vpn that I can access on cell, work, public > wifi, wherever really. Check them out at zerotier.com. > > -mb > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:56 PM Jim wrote: > >> I finally got the vpn working, but I'm having trouble with bittorrent. >> So far I've tried Deluge. The next time I have time to mess with it, I can >> try another bittorrent client. Michael, which one do you use? >> >> On 09/18/2018 11:35 AM, Michael Butash wrote: >> >> How are you configuring the openvpn connection? Using PIA vpn, they give >> you an openvpn file to connect with, or at least did last I set it up, and >> otherwise should just need the package dependencies installed with openvpn. >> >> I'd say launch openvpn via the cli in debug to see what errors it's >> giving with the ovpn file. >> >> Bridge or nat should be irrelevant, I've run mine both ways. You should >> only need ports 1194 out to your VPN provider, you don't need to port >> forward one back, and actually recommend you do NOT unless you're wanting >> an openvpn server yourself to connect back to. Mine works fine out via NAT. >> >> -mb >> >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:57 PM Jim wrote: >> >>> I decided to try a virtual machine for bittorrent. The host machine >>> runs kubuntu 14.04 with 4GB RAM. I've installed virtualbox 5.2.18. The >>> virtual machine is running lubuntu 18 and has 1GB RAM. The problem is >>> with the vpn. I can't get openvpn or pptp to work. I configured them >>> using the same instructions I did on the host machine. When I try to >>> start a VPN connction(openvpn or pptp) on the guest machine, the icon >>> appears to show it's trying to connect, then it just stops without >>> offering any error message. In Virtualbox's settings for the guest >>> machine under network, I chose attached to NAT. >>> >>> Any ideas what I should do different? >>> >>> thanks >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss