Debian on Nico Maas

WD My Cloud Mirror Gen2 with Debian 11 and Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:05:32 +0000

Intro

Since 2017 I have been using an Western Digital My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 which I bought at Amazons Black Friday (or similar) - because the included 2x 8 TB WD Red were even cheaper with the NAS than standalone. Using the NAS had been quite ok, especially the included Docker Engine and Plex Support were a nice to have, the included Backdoor in older Versions - not so much. Recently WD had their new “My Cloud OS 5” replace the old My Cloud OS 3 - and made things worse for a lot of people. As I don’t want any more surprises - and more control over my hardware - I decided to finally go down the road and get Debian 11 with an LTS (5.15) Kernel running on the hardware. This is how it went.

Debian 9 Offline Installation Bug

Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:00:16 +0000

I had to install a Debian 9.3 without having access to the internet, so I downloaded the full size offline install DVD from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd. As usual, I inserted the first DVD into the DVD Drive, started the install and everything worked fine - except for the moment where it didn’t ;): I needed to switch DVDs for some software - and directly afterwards, Debian came to the “Install Grub” step - and asked politly to insert DVD 1 again - which I tried to do - but could not:

SSH Tunneling

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:30:44 +0000

One of the most important things by working in “dangerous” Networking Enviroments is protection.

And by that I don’t mean the usual (and important!) Anti Virus, Anti Malware and Firewall Software, but Traffic Tunneling, meaning VPN or SSH.

SSH is the secure equivalent to the good old (and Plaintext transmitted) Telnet. And its also more powerful: Its use is not limited to remote Control, but can also provide an secured Datatunnel through which all your Traffic to your Remote Location (i.e. an Mysql Database, Web- or Mailserver or the Web itself) is tunneld - and encrypted. Giving therefore little to no chance to “Wiresharkes” and other Cable Tappers or Span Users.