NaQ's Complete Setup Guide for Linux Seedboxes (Fedora Core/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu)

Problems I solved to get this working on a Debian Linux Server from server.lu:

Use vnc4server instead.

Could not install wine at all. You will have many dependency errors and what not. This is how you can solve it.

First install:

apt-get install lmza

(This is to avoid the dpkg error)

Then follow these instructions and install this repository. I used the Lenny one.

http://www.lamaresh.net/






For all those having the Error: Access Denied

I almost pulled my hair out with this one, I had my download directory in my home folder and it just wasn't working, I even chmoded and sshed and changed all the permissions.

Do NOT name your directories with separate names i.e. "My Downloads". Keep it one word to prevent this error.

Nevermind, got it fixed.

How do I change the ftp server back to FTP rather the sFTP.

http://www.lookpic.com/files/fixme.jpg

Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening? Everything seems to run fine but am curious as to what these "fixme" errors mean.

sorry for the double post

hey guys not sure what i am doing wrong but i am now logged into tightvnc and all i see is a screen with a big black x and no taskbar. also nothing happens when i left/right click. any ideas?

ok i killed the vnc server and restarted it and now i have a taskbar.

I used this guide to configure seedbox. But my ISP has done various problems. Sometimes I had a slow speed with FTP, sometimes I could not even connect to the vnc, sometimes connected, but nothing can be done, the low speed. At last time speed FTP fell to 10-50 KB. I configured vpn between me and seedbox, and everything was working as expected. I think such problems not only for me. I suggest to add another guide on configuring vpn.

I've run out disk space. I keep deleting torrents and the data but it still says the disk is full. Anyone know what is going on?

great guide, helped me out when I first setup my dedi server

Thanks a lot naq.

I ordered a CentOS based server and it is due shortly. So I wanna clear a few doubts before it arrives. I am absolute noob in linux hence these question.

1. On centoswiki the xstartup had a lot more lines to it like geometry and stuff. So if I go with this tutorial will i be getting a desktop with icons n shortcuts and stuff ?

2.If a bunch of guys together taking the server so how do I assign fixed hard disk space (quotas) to each user.

3. Each user should have privacy. i.e, the others files are not to be view how can i achieve that?

4. If a person leaves how do i remove the user account and the assigned disk quota.

Hoping for some help.

hope someone can help me here..

iv got a server.lu with ubuntu 8.10

i follow this guide step by set and all go's fine, but.. when i try to connect with tightvnc all i see is a white screen..

if i right click i get nothing other then this black bar.

any help is greatly appreciated, bare in mind this is my first time using linux :D

thanks !!

http://http://i369.photobucket.com/a...6/Untitled.jpg

Fixed the problem.

Great guide, worked for me. Thank you :).

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Originally Posted by jobinjv

Thanks a lot naq.

I ordered a CentOS based server and it is due shortly. So I wanna clear a few doubts before it arrives. I am absolute noob in linux hence these question.

1. On centoswiki the xstartup had a lot more lines to it like geometry and stuff. So if I go with this tutorial will i be getting a desktop with icons n shortcuts and stuff ?

2.If a bunch of guys together taking the server so how do I assign fixed hard disk space (quotas) to each user.

3. Each user should have privacy. i.e, the others files are not to be view how can i achieve that?

4. If a person leaves how do i remove the user account and the assigned disk quota.

Hoping for some help.

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Any one any help ??

thanks - this guide was a lifesaver for me!

very nice guide.

thanks

Nice.

Thanks!!

I get to the utorrent point and then it's a no-no. Using debian 5.0 I downloaded utorrent and wined it.. installation came up and I seleceted to not install utorrent. Problem is.. it's not running. I get a bunch of error messages in Wine from options and stuff in the install but that's it.

Any ideas?

great guide

im 2/3 of the way through and most things have gone well, i have fluxbox and utorrent up and running and can kind of connect through FTP.

My issue is I can only connect to FTP when i edit the vsftpd.conf file and set ssl_enable=NO

If I set ssl_enable=YES
and then type vsftpd i het
500 OOPS: SSL: cannot load RSA private key

The key is there i know i remember creating it but something has gone wrong, how do i kill the current key and create a new one?

There's a typo in the guide (well, there's numerous errors & typos in the guide) and it's been a while but the line should be:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /root/vsftpd.key -out /root/vsftpd.pem

Edit: You shouldn't need to kill the current key, it'll overwite it.

hello,
i was wondering if anyone know how to set up space limits and active torrents limit per each user

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8439/57589466.jpg


what the fuck? how do i fix that

dude... this Ubuntu dedibox feels like a Pentium 1 with 64ram... something must be wrong its so slow...

It could be a case of X Windows starting up, but fluxbox not starting up. Might want to make sure fluxbox is installed, then go through step 5 again to make sure it's configured correctly.

how do i connect to FTP instead of SFTP?(CentOS)

great setup guide :)

nice guide :D

Hoping someone can help.

I have a server.lu box that I have set up as a seedbox using this guide. It all works and all was fine till last friday.

Up until then i was connecting to the box and ftping down at approx 600kbps regularly, now i connect to FTP and can only transfer at 5-10kbps at most.

I think its my setup on the server as I can d/l from http://www.server.lu/speed.test at 150kbps easily which would be on a box in the same datacenter im guessing. Plus the torrent speeds are fine in utorrent

Has anyone encountered this before or can point me in the direction of a fix?
I have tried
- restarting vsftpd
- changing the ftp port
- enabling/disenabling SSL over FTP
- closing utorrent on the box and ftping (no change in speed)
- differant FTP clients

Im wracking my brain trying to figure out whats gone wrong

Hi,

Can Someone Help Me Out I Dont Know What I Done Wrong, All I See Is A Blue Screen When I Try And Login Via VNC, No Bar Or Anything, It Has Debian OS.

Any Help Would Be Much Appreciated

W0W gOOd

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Originally Posted by djc

Hoping someone can help.

I have a server.lu box that I have set up as a seedbox using this guide. It all works and all was fine till last friday.

Up until then i was connecting to the box and ftping down at approx 600kbps regularly, now i connect to FTP and can only transfer at 5-10kbps at most.

I think its my setup on the server as I can d/l from http://www.server.lu/speed.test at 150kbps easily which would be on a box in the same datacenter im guessing. Plus the torrent speeds are fine in utorrent

Has anyone encountered this before or can point me in the direction of a fix?
I have tried
- restarting vsftpd
- changing the ftp port
- enabling/disenabling SSL over FTP
- closing utorrent on the box and ftping (no change in speed)
- differant FTP clients

Im wracking my brain trying to figure out whats gone wrong

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I have the same problem! Anyone know how to speed up FTP?

very nice bro ....

Hi,

First of all, great tutorial :)

Buf I've the famous 10061 error using VNC Viewer (Connection refused (10061)) and with TightVNC i get "Failed to connect to server (xx.xx.xx.xx:1)" :wacko:

I start the vnc server:

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ptseeder@ksxxxxxx:~$ vncserver

New 'X' desktop is ksxxxxxx.kimsufi.com:1

Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession
Log file is /home/ptseeder/.vnc/ksxxxxxx.kimsufi.com:1.log

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and this is the log:

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05/06/09 21:51:17 Xvnc version 3.3.7 - built Dec 30 2006 12:50:35
05/06/09 21:51:17 Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
05/06/09 21:51:17 Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
05/06/09 21:51:17 All Rights Reserved.
05/06/09 21:51:17 See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC
05/06/09 21:51:17 Desktop name 'X' (ksxxxxxx.kimsufi.com:1)
05/06/09 21:51:17 Protocol version supported 3.3
05/06/09 21:51:17 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
failed to set default font path ''
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

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iptables:

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ksxxxxxxx:~# iptables -t filter -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

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hosts:

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# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost
xx.xx.xx.xx ksxxxxxxx.kimsufi.com
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#(added automatically by netbase upgrade)
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
feo0::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

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Any ideas to solve my problem?

I changed my server acc and ip server to xxx on quoted text!

This is a blueprint for greatness! thanks for the tutorial, I've used it many times as a basis for my experimentation..

Awesome!

This post was very informative... I appreciate it, and will apply a lot of what I learned in it the next time I actually buy a seedbox, which should be pretty soon.

guys i have setup utorrent on webui on my ubuntu , problem is i cant access the ip address to the gui .. anyone can tell me what i can do about that?

Someone have any idea how to solve this error. I am trying to run uttorent with fedora 8

Thats after i cancel the setup wizard. I tired also running the setup but same thing.
http://yfrog.com/ao792009100005pmp

someone ?:) Thanks

Just want to say thanks for this amazing guide. Just a got a server with a couple of other people and this will make it a lot easier :D.

a very useful guide
thx

Very very helpful guide, I had setup my seedbox and it was working fine, then all of a sudden about a week ago I had VNC close down on me and each time I try to connect to it, it just says "Connection closed", so I thought I would kill the process in Putty, so I type in "vncserver -kill :1" and it comes up with this message

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Can't find file /root/.vnc/hosted-by:1.pid
You'll have to kill the Xtightvnc process manually

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I've posted the same question on this forum http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1258328 and they have tried helping me out, but I now have an even bigger problem!!!! I followed the steps below, but when I typed in "iptables -F" Putty just froze, and now I am unable to connect to my seedbox :cry:

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Originally Posted by naq

Troubleshoot: Your server might came with a firewall installed, which would block the VNC connection attempt. We'll setup a firewall later in the guide, so for now we can disable this firewall if it exists. To find out, type the following in Putty while login as root to list the filter table of iptables:[/INDENT]

Code:

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# iptables -t filter -L
 Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target    prot opt source              destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target    prot opt source              destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target    prot opt source              destination

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The above output means there is no firewall. If your output has entries under the 3 chains (INPUT, FORWARD, OUTPUT) and/or has more chains, then we'll need to flush the iptables:

Code:

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# iptables -F

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[INDENT] List the table again to make sure it's empty. Then try to connect with VNC Viewer again.

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I have no idea what to do