Search the Community

Hi, I have an old laptop with Windows 11 that I'm thinking of using as a Plex Server instead of using my Raspberry Pi 4 since I'd get GPU hardware acceleration and its easier to setup network sharing on drives on the former. However the windows laptop tends to turn off and go offline frequently thereby making my plex server unavailable often and I cant teamviewer into it either because it shows up as offline. (Is there a particular version of teamviewer that I should use that might be better when it's on the logon screen?) I'm trying to setup my laptop as a headless PC. Is there something I can do to keep it from restarting randomly and/or something I can do that can ensure it stays up longer. Or is there a way to get Plex Media Server running right as the laptop turns on and it not have to wait for someone to log on to the laptop before it starts running the Plex Media Server and other processes.

I have install pfsense on an old dell Computer that I used as a server. I added a dual pot NIC, and it is running just fine. I would like to cannibalize the GPU and use it for another build; however, I am newer to pc building. Has anyone done this? can you run pfsense without a GPU after you have it configured and set up? Second question, where do YOU order your parts from? What sales site do you use primarily to order from? Thanks guys!

This is my first post on this forum. If I violate any rules, please let me know. First of all. I'm no expert on pfSense, but I found a way to get to WebConfigurator without vga or serial, sort of. If there's anything wrong in this post, please let me know. You still need video output during the process. This method is only tested on the latest version (2.5.1) of pfSense, but should work on older versions. Simply put, you install pfSense the regular way with video out, edit the config.xml file, clear config.cache, shutdown, change hardware, boot the system and done. config xml docs This is why you still need video out. Use case example: I have an itx build lying around ( thus only 1 pcie x16 slot ) but the motherboard does not have video out, and I need another Nic card since the motherboard only comes with one ethernet port. Here are the steps: install pfSense with the graphics card. ( or other video output ). Setup WAN, and ignore LAN ( you should not have other Nics to setup LAN here, otherwise you can get to the WebConfigurator easily in the first place ). Get in to shell. Edit xml file. ee /conf/config.xml Find something like this in the xml file. <interfaces> <wan> <enable/> <if>em0</if> <ipaddr>dhcp</ipaddr> </wan> </interfaces> Add lan config. You need to know which driver your Nic is using. I'm using intel i350 t4 which is using igb driver. <interfaces> <wan> <enable/> <if>em0</if> <ipaddr>dhcp</ipaddr> </wan> <lan> <enable/> <if>igb0</if> <ipaddr>192.168.1.1</ipaddr> <subnet>24</subnet> </lan> </interfaces> Find something like this in the xml file. <dhcpd></dhcpd> Add lan DHCP. <dhcpd> <lan> <enable/> <range> <from>192.168.1.10</from> <to>192.168.1.200</to> </range> </lan> </dhcpd> Save config.xml. Clear config.cache. rm /tmp/config.cache Shutdown. Remove graphic card and plug in the Nic card. Boot the system and connect ethernet cable on the Nic card's corresponding port. You should now be able to get to WebConfigurator.

Right now my Blender Cycles/Eevee hybrid animations are bottnecked by single threaded tasks when rendering so even though my 1070 chews thru the main passes in 30-120 seconds my 6900x takes another 10-20 minutes to finish the frame which means my animations take up to a week to render. I want to cut that down by going with 4 cheap K80s on my friend's Asus Z9PE-D8 WS he is selling with a pair of xeons. Running 8 iterations of Blender at the same time would cut my renders down to less than a day even with the weaker CPU cores giving me more time to iterate before my deadlines. I already have everything else I need lying around. I just want to know if it is safe to use my 20 inch Dewalt drum fan to suck air thru the back of my cards with a homemade baffle of rubber sheets and epoxy. Similar to what this guy did but with 4 cards and a much larger fan. I read somewhere that large fans like this can create a static charge that can damage computers. Would this be an issue with it sucking air out the back and thru a rubber baffle? Lastly, after I installed all of the drivers can I pull the graphics card out and replace it with the 4th tesla to boot over the network and have one of the cards output video through something like teamviewer? If not then how can I go about running 4 teslas headless and still get video output? I plan on doing this with windows 10 so I can unlock the card's boost frequencies easily.

Budget (including currency): Under $500 USD Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Solely for use as a headless Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS machine to run RoasTime (amd64), and RealVNC server. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hi all, Merry Christmas, this is my first post! I'm looking for your thoughts on amd64 based single-board computers. My project is to create a headless Ubuntu machine which sole purpose is to run RoasTime (amd64) and RealVNC server, accessed by RealVNC viewer on a Mac on the same network. I've tried this with a Raspberry Pi 4, but soon realized I couldn't install RoasTime since the software is amd64 based, where the RPi is ARM based. Aside from RPi, Arduino, Beagle Bone, and Adafruit, I'm not familiar with other single-board computers / micro processors, especially those with amd64 based processors. After some research I found UDOO X86 II ADVANCED PLUS, which seems to satisfy all requirements of 20.04.1 LTS Desktop (since I'll ultimately access it with RealVNC) and is amd64 based for RoasTime. For under $250 USD I can get the board, case, M.2 wifi/bt kit, and power supply. So, what do you think, am I on the right track or am I missing something?

Hi, Sorry if this has been already talked about, but i couldn't find anything similar (also, I dont really know if this belongs here, sorry if not). So, I happen to have my 4k 21" iMac from work and my gaming pc but no monitor to pair with. I was thinking of ways to use the iMac as a monitor for my PC but this model does not support target display for doing so. so i was thinking of streaming via parsec or something similar from my PC to the Mac. Would it work if I connect the two of them together via the native ethernet ports? ANd if so, Would it be better than just streaming via LAN being both hardwired to the router? I made a quick scheme to help understanding. Thanks in advance!!!

Title sums it up. I am basically copying the jonsbo n1 build however I am using proxmox instead of freenas. I have installed it twice on the SSD. It boots up fine on my main pc. However when I disconnect it and put it in the jonsbo and boot up I cannot access it on my main pc. I used the IP I set via the web, tried putty etc. I then scanned my ips and found nothing is showing for the assigned IP. However my router shows somthing communicating. Any ideas?

Does a ASRock B550 Pro Boot without a GPU? -> Yes it does! (BIOS Version: 2.40) CPU: Ryzen 3600 I tested it for my UnRaid Server, I just wanted it to the post the knowledge here for other people who want to build there own server with this motherboard

Hello! I use the ASRock E3C226D2I currently with an Intel i3 CPU and it works fine. https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C226D2I#Specifications For performance reasons, I'd like to upgrade the system with a Xeon CPU instead. My system has no dedicated GPU installed. The i3 had an integrated GPU. Xeon CPUs don't have integrated GPUs. Does the mainboard has some basic GPU onboard to enable basic server use? I just need console. I couldn't tell from the specs. Can anybody give some insight? Thanks, airflow

Long story short, I want to be able to have as many different desktops in virtual space as possible, and was surprised back when I bought the Vive years ago that this was limited to actual ports on the motherboard and or connected GPUs. I picked up an Index and am back to the same quandary. Or are there other solutions? I looked into headless hdmi plugs years ago but had hoped there was a better solution since the Vive years. Any help in the right direction. Was inspired by the LTT video of the mobo with the ridiculous number of USB ports for what was clearly an industrial solution. ‘’Thanks in advance, ‘’Kevin

I'm trying to install WineHQ on my ubuntu server and can't find how to install it on a gui-less server, using only ssh. As all the things I keep finding keep showing graphics drivers and stuff in the installed packages, but I know those won't "logically" work. I'm trying to run a steam game (KF2) server on linux, any help would be appreciated.

I have an old PC I wasn't using, and I was going to give it away. I then realized that I could use it to run computations (I write evolving neural networks as a hobby) while I use my main computer for other tasks. Ideally, I'd like some way to have the machine running headlessly, and then just use ssh on a terminal (or something similar) to send an app over and run it. That much I can handle, but I have no idea what distro of Linux I should put on the machine. I'm not super experienced with Linux, so I'm a bit afraid of something like Arch. Any ideas?

This is my Samba share [www] read only = no path = /var/www/ valid users = ciaran,seaurchin create mask = 0775 When I mount on my remote computer as user seaurchin it mounts read only. I have tried adding writeable = yes and that doesent help. Any ideas ?

I'm looking for help/advice for building a a headless home server from scratch, esp. CPU and motherboard related. I'm getting lost between all the options I run into (Intel vs AMD, Xeon vs Core, LGA 1151 or 2011, ...). I'm hoping for something cheap (all in all $500-700ish), and it should be quiet and consume low power. I think (wrongly perhaps) that it's best to get a future proof CPU and motherboard with enough extensibility options (I can update RAM, SSD, PSU, etc. later as needed). From my searchings so far, I'm contemplating a Xeon E5-2670 + Intel BOXDX79TO MB (total about $283) or Xeon E5-2660 (x2) + ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 MB (total about $487). Would either of these would be a good config / setup? Or might I be better served going for a Xeon E3-12xx (v5 or v6)? Or a Core CPU? I intend to use this to try out things and learn as I go ahead (but not for gaming). Initially the idea is to use it for home media aspects, home automation and security, run my own "DropBox storage" / VPN / web server / email server, and some programming and data storage, processing, and analytics etc. Eventually I might try more intensive things like Machine Learning (e.g. NLP and real time video/image processing), bitcoin/ethereum mining, etc. But these will later need dedicated GPUs if I go that far. I appreciate your wisdom and insights! Thanks!

Hi, I am trying to install virtualBox on my Ubuntu server (18.04 LTS), though, when running sudo systemctl restart vboxdrv It will throw an error, specifically: Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server systemd[1]: Starting vboxweb-service.service... Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server vboxweb-service.sh[18931]: vboxweb-service.sh: Starting VirtualBox web service. Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server vboxweb-service.sh[18938]: Starting VirtualBox web service. Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server vboxweb-service.sh[18931]: vboxweb-service.sh: failed: VirtualBox web service failed to start. Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server vboxweb-service.sh[18953]: failed: VirtualBox web service failed to start. Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server systemd[1]: vboxweb-service.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server systemd[1]: vboxweb-service.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Sep 21 20:59:53 pegasus-server systemd[1]: Failed to start vboxweb-service.service. I havent been able to fix this, I hope someone here know how to. Thanks ?

I have a system with an Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2. The motherboard is an Intel Q77 that has video outputs. The CPU does not have onboard video though. I currently have a GT 610 for graphics residing in an PCIe x4 Electrical (x16 Physical) . At my job a customer brought in an HP with a Headless R5-330. Does anyone have ideas for a headless single slot PCIe x1 or x4 , GPU? Or a PCIe x1 GPU that I should look at? Or do I even need graphics when all I do is remote in via Teamviewer, even with the machine right next to me.

After watched Lius's Video on no advets I ordered a Raspberry Pi 3b+ Cana kit I downloaded Raspbian and logged in pi using the putty. I updated Raspbian prior to installing Pi-hole but nothing happened I was NOT presented with a password and username I tried o uninstall and install PI-hole again. again to no use, I thought I'd start from scratch so I formatted my card and flashed the Raspbian Image again using etcher Now after installing Raspbian and making a ssh file, when I put my SD card in Raspberry pi, my angry iP scanner wont scan it

ok so im new to linux and im wondering if any of you know of any good web based system monitoring software for cpu ram and disk's.