Installing Active Directory client bridge likewise-open on Debian Wheezy

# Grab the Ubuntu source package
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/likewise-open/likewise-open_6.1.0.406.orig.tar.gz

# Extract
tar xvzf likewise-open_6.1.0.406.orig.tar.gz
cd likewise-open_6.1.0.406

# Get dependencies
apt-get install -y build-essential  fakeroot  devscripts  debhelper \
    autoconf automake libtool libncurses5-dev  uuid-dev \
    flex bison libpam0g-dev  libssl-dev  libxml2-dev  libpopt-dev pkg-config

mkdir debug
cd debug
../configure
make package

Samba4 Active Directory Domain Controller on Debian Wheezy

#We will use BIND9_DLZ as backend, we need to add a compile flag to bind9

sudo su -l

apt-get install build-essential fakeroot devscripts

#download bind9 src

apt-get source bind9

cd bind9-9.8.4.dfsg.P1

vi debian/rules

#add the following line after  ./configure
--dl-open=yes \

# get the dependencies
apt-get build-dep bind9

#build
fakeroot debian/rules binary

#install
dpkg -i ../bind9-9.8.4.dfsg.P1_<your arch>.deb

#add backports repo

vi /etc/apt/sources.lst

#add the following line to sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main

#install samba from backports (version 4)
apt-get install -t wheezy-backports samba

#check your samba version is 4
samba -V

# provision domain
/usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --interactive

service samba start
apt-get install chkconfig
chkconfig samba on

#setup bind,kerberos, etc
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Dns-backend_bind
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO

Installing ltsp-server in Linux Mint 13 LTS

sudo su -l
apt-get install ltsp-server-standalone

# You need to make a link from Ubunto to LinuxMint since ltsp does not know about Mint
cd /usr/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/
ln -s Ubuntu LinuxMint
ln -s Debian-functions LinuxMint-functions

# You need to tell explicitly which release you are using, you can change the architecture to something #else
ltsp-build-client --arch=i386 --dist=precise


# Follow the rest of the tutorial here
http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-create-ubuntu-1104-x64-ltsp-server-32bit-thin-clients

Script to turn apt-cache search into apt-get install list

apt-cache search <search-term> | cut -f1 -d ' ' | sed 's/$/ \\/g' -

Boostrap a Debian OpenVZ container in ProxMox

# Setup bridged networking
vi /etc/network/interfaces

# Add the following lines
auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.0.2.7
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.0.2.254

# Setup proxy for apt-get
vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf

# Add the following line

 Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy:8080";

How to remove the nag dialog in Proxmox

Blog post on how to remove the annoying Proxmox nag dialog

http://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/614-remove-the-proxmox-no-subscription-message