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Hi Guys,
Sorry for the belated response but I was away.
@ anothernqs Tthanks mate for pointing out the error.I have corrected it.
@ grelos You should try to change the screen resolution from the DE settings.
Yes you are right about dnsmasq.You need it installed but not necessarily running(the ...

MX being Debian in nature ships with Uncomplicated Fire Wall (ufw) as the default firewall.
However there are better alternatives namely firewalld.
Firewalld is a front to Iptables and has a lot of functionality such as services,ports,zones,port-forwarding etc.
To install it run

systemctl disable ...

It happens often if you switch between windows and linux installations.
In fstab please mount the partitions by their UUID, part UUID, Label or lvm names if you use lvm.
Please have a look at
/dev/disk
You shall see something like :
by-id by-label by-partlabel by-partuuid by-path by-uuid
These are ...

Sometimes you might find yourself in the unfortunate situation that you forgot your root passwd or that it has somehow been changed or stopped functioning.
This means lack of access to the root account.
Fortunately there is a very easy way to change this password(with all horrifying implications ...

Letsencrypt https://letsencrypt.org/ is a fantastic organization that issues SSL certificates for free to anyone who possesses a legitimate domain or more.

Everyone can use their certificate issuance and renewal tool called "certbot" to get some certs.
It is very easy.

This is how to do it in MX ...

@fehlix
Since you seem very experienced I will assume that this was a rhetorical question....
;)
Wlell its all about central network authenrication.
The user accounts are stored centrally in this openldap server and the passwords likewise in the kdc server.
A properly configured client(maybe with ...

Hi Guys,
Expanding om my previouss thread https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=55007&p=549125#p549125 about installing a Bind DNS name server on MXLinux,
I wrote a script that installs and configures the following:
Bind
Openldap server over SSL
Kerberos KDC, Kerberos Admin Server and ...

Nextcloud https://nextcloud.com/ is a nice enough platform for file sharing and more.
There are also many many plugins that enable video conferencing,calling and many many more.
It is a private cloud storage server like google drive but it is hosted in your machine.
Having installed next cloud you ...

Become root and run it???
Maybe?

Oh my god!!!!
Thanks friend for the info...
If i only knew......
Waste of time trying to variableize my network........
It was fun though.
Having said that it seems that dnssec-trigger uses unbound dns server which apparently is a caching-only server.Will unbound host an internal domain?
I prefer ...