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This post documents the full troubleshooting process (what I checked and why), not just the final workaround. Environment There is a dedicated 10G internal network between the cluster nodes and the NAS: node1: 172.16.0.20 node2: 172.16.0.21 NAS2 (Synology): 172.16.0.10 The NAS also has another reachable service IP: NAS2 service IP:... To read more, click herePreface: From Almost Giving Up to Finally Being Able to Type Honestly, this article was written when I was very close to giving up on using an on-screen keyboard under KDE Plasma Wayland. On Debian 13 with KDE Plasma 6 running on Wayland, the only officially supported virtual keyboard is... To read more, click herePreface The company I work for uses a DrayTek router model that does not support WireGuard. By running WireGuard on a Debian VM instead, we gain: Performance decoupled from router hardware: the VM can scale (CPU/RAM/NIC), giving better crypto throughput. Clean, flexible routing: send only specific subnets (e.g., 192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.10.0/24)... To read more, click hereThis post documents the complete process of converting an old IBM physical server running Windows Server 2003 into a virtual machine on Proxmox VE, and then shrinking its 2 TB system disk down to a much smaller, space-efficient image. 1. P2V with VMware vCenter Converter (XP-Compatible Version) Because the original... To read more, click hereBackground Recently, multiple internal workstations were found repeatedly initiating SMB (445 / 139 / NetBIOS) connections to various public IP addresses. Because the company policy only allows internal SMB access to a designated NAS server, this activity was deemed abnormal and suggested potential malware infection or misbehavior. In addition to... To read more, click here
