Update (10/08/2020): For the most recent version of this resource, refer to the thread TrueCommand Auto-Update in the Resources section of the FreeNAS Community Forum. Want to ensure that you’re always running the latest version of TrueCommand in a Docker container? Docker Compose is the enabler for automatic updates. This technique I first used on resources …
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Nextcloud and Collabora Integration on FreeNAS
Update (10/08/2020): For the most recent version of this resource, refer to Nextcloud and Collabora Integration in the Resources section of the FreeNAS Community Forum. Resource Collabora and OnlyOffice are popular office suite choices for Nextcloud. This is a collection of notes on how to get Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) working in Nextcloud behind a …
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Nextcloud and OnlyOffice Integration on FreeNAS
Update (10/08/2020): For the most recent version of this resource, refer to Nextcloud and OnlyOffice Integration in the Resources section of the FreeNAS Community Forum. Resource Collabora and OnlyOffice are popular office suite choices for Nextcloud. This is a collection of notes on how to get OnlyOffice working in Nextcloud behind a reverse proxy on …
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TrueCommand 1.2.2 Installation Enhancements
The command in the TrueCommand Guide: docker run –detach -v “/hostdirectory:/data” -p portnumber:80 -p sslport:443 ixsystems/truecommand:latest A practical example: sudo docker run –detach -v “/tc-data:/data” -p 8080:80 -p 8081:443 ixsystems/truecommand:latest There are a number of issues with this: The data is lost if the Ubuntu VM is destroyed; The time in the container does not correspond to …
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VirtualBox and Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you are considering revisiting MS-DOS 6.22, the last standalone version of Microsoft DOS, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (WfW), the first commercial version of Windows to gain any real traction. For this post, I’m working with VirtualBox 5.2.12 under Windows 10 Home (build 1803). A working …
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Windows Browser Compatibility Matrix
Intended Audience This post will be relevant to you if you’re looking for a browser for a legacy Windows operating system (OS). While there are many browsers, only the popular browsers, arguably the juggernauts in their time, are covered in this post. Background On reflection, after having built a whole bunch of legacy Windows systems in VMs, …
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Virtual PC and Windows 95
Having successfully virtualised Windows 95 using VMware Workstation Player (refer here) and Oracle VirtualBox (and here), my attention then turned to Virtual PC. The latest version of Virtual PC (VPC) runs on Windows 7. Hyper-V replaces it in Windows 10. VPC 2007 and VPC 2004 are previous versions of VPC. Referring to the Table of …
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VMware and Windows 95
This is the second in a multipart series on virtualisation software. In an earlier post, I used VirtualBox to create a Windows 95 virtual machine. In this post, I’ll do the same thing, but use VMware instead of VirtualBox. The first challenge for me was to figure out exactly what constituted VMware virtualisation software. I had …
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Stronger Authentication for Windows 95
In a recent post, I suggested that maybe it was time to let go of Windows 95. After all, newer printers don’t support it, Windows Update (WU) no longer works on it, and it has considerable difficulty accessing network shares in a modern network. In another post, I suggested that, at the cost of weakening …
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VirtualBox and Windows 95
In a previous post, I provided an overview of my experience with installing Windows 95 in a VM. I decided to provide further detail in this post not so much to focus on Windows 95, but as a prelude to investigating how well different virtualisation software handled legacy operating systems. The guest OS I used …
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