Currently running Lubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver) as my primary desktop OS.

When I decided to set up a Raspberry Pi for a quick test server, I thought I’d do everything from the terminal to refresh myself with some basic commands.

I found an SD card with an image of some Raspbian on it already, however it was erroring on boot, possibly from a mounted removal of the device. Whoops..

First I checked what the system recognized the device as with sudo fdisk -l

The device was /dev/sdf and showed a small partition of /dev/sdf1 and a larger partition of /dev/sdf2

I removed both partitions with parted after verifying they were unmounted
:~$sudo umount /dev/sdf1
:~$sudo umount /dev/sdf2

:~$sudo parted /dev/sdf rm 1
:~$sudo parted /dev/sdf rm 2

Prior to this I downloaded the latest Raspbian img from
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

From the Downloads directory (where the img resides) I ran the following to copy the img to the SD card

sudo dd bs=1M if=2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-lite.img of=/dev/sdf

As a side note, to detail exactly what version of Linux I am using I used the following command
:~$cat /etc/os-release

WAMP Server 3.1.0 64-Bit
Link for download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wampserver/

To allow access for other computers on the local network, edit the httpd-vhosts.conf from the Apache tab on the main menu at the taskbar.

Before any edits, the file is the following:

Add the first three octets of your local network address after “Require local”
The result should look like the following:

Downloaded latest Lubuntu x64 image as of July 4th 2018.

Get Lubuntu

Copied the ISO to a 16GB USB jump drive w/ Universal USB Installer 1.9.8.2

Universal USB Installer – Bootable Pendrive Software

After following the install through to completion, I’m ready to start setting up the network and SSH.

I type ‘ifconfig” and surprisingly net-tools are not installed on this image. The terminal displays a command to install net-tools, which I run.

sudo apt install net-tools

I also run a command to check for and install updates.
sudo apt-get update
and
sudo apt-get upgrade

Set static IP via the GUI

Installed SSH Server w/
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Installed Apache w/
sudo apt-get install apache2

Installing / Using Raspberry Pi Raspbian
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Download image file from : https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

Format SD card with SDFormatter w/ Format Size Adjustment set to ON

Imaged SD card with Win32DiskImager

Username/Password for Raspbian
pi / raspberry

Checked the size of partitions with parted
> sudo parted -l

Expanded Filesystem with raspi-config
> sudo raspi-config
option 1

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Install gqrx Software Defined Radio Package
> sudo apt-get install gqrx-sdr

Running gqrx failed with “gqrx: cannot connect to X server”

Removed gqrx
> sudo apt-get purge –auto-remove gqrx-sdr

Check linux version
> cat /proc/version

Install software-properties-common to use “add-apt-repository”
> sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

It appears gqrx is processor intensive, therefore the Raspberry Pi B+ is not a good platform
for this application

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To run a GUI on Rasbian

> sudo tasksel
select enviroment with spacebar {I chose LXDE}
press enter
ERROR
tasksel: apt-get failed (100)

I tried selecting “Debian desktop enviroment” and “LXDE”
same error

same error selecting “xfce”

Install LXDE with apt-get

> sudo apt-get install LXDE

reboot

a gui is not recommended as it’s very slow

to uninstall LXDE , sudo apt-get purge –auto-remove LXDE , doesn’t work
I could further remove all packages related to LXDE, however I’m not concerned with space at
this time

Setup Pi to boot into console on startup

run raspi-config
> sudo raspi-config
select boot options [3]
select B2 Console Autologin

Server 2008 R2

List all members of the Domain Users group.

In PowerShell:
dsquery user -limit 0 > users.txt

The “> users.txt” saves the contents of the query in a file.
This file is a comma delimited text file, which can then be edited in Excel.

I had a call from a customer today. Their issue was a network printer showing “offline”. They tried restarting the computer and printer before calling me.

Other computers on the network were able to print to this printer.
I verified the IP address from another working configuration.

I should note the OS is Windows 7.

I first tried disabling “SNMP Status Enabled” from the Port Settings under the TCP/IP port configuration of the printer. This brought the printer back online but still unable to print.

I removed the printer configuration from the computer. After keying in the IP address to add the printer back it would not “find” the printer..

After a cup of coffee, I finally thought to disable McAfee Firewall. After again typing the IP in the add printer wizard, the computer was able to establish the connection needed to install the printer.

I left the McAfee Firewall disabled.

Final thoughts.. Get your cup of coffee first, then check the firewall before banging your head against the wall for a simple issue such as this..