Jim McKeeth's questions

I just setup a local standalone landscape on premises server on Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS named landscape. It is Landscape On Premises release 17.03. I added the IP Addr for landscape to my client's hosts file.

The first time I tried configuring a client I got the SSL error because of the self signed certificate, so I copied the certificate locally and added it to the client.conf file. Now when I run the configuration command

sudo landscape-config --computer-title "node-1" --account-name standalone  --url https://landscape/message-system --ping-url http://landscape/ping --ssl-public-key /etc/landscape/landscape-server-ca.crt

It gets all the way to the "request registration" step, and then after about a minute returns with the error:

We were unable to contact the server.
Your internet connection may be down. The landscape client will continue to try and contact the server periodically.

I can ping landscape by name, and wget against those URLs pulls down a response. I've restarted both the client and the server. I've tried this from two different clients on the local network, and both give the same error. The pending computers link on the Landscape server shows no pending computers.

I looked in the broker.log and found the following error:

2018-01-28 22:36:10,281 INFO     [MainThread] Starting urgent message exchange with https://landscape/message-system.  
2018-01-28 22:36:10,304 ERROR    [PoolThread-twisted.internet.reactor-0] Error contacting the server at https://landscape/message-system.  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/broker/transport.py", line 71, in exchange message_api)  
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/broker/transport.py", line 45, in _curl headers=headers, cainfo=self._pubkey, curl=curl))  
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/landscape/lib/fetch.py", line 113, in fetch
raise PyCurlError(e.args[0], e.args[1])  
PyCurlError: Error 77:   
2018-01-28 22:36:10,305 INFO     [MainThread] Message exchange failed.

Am I missing something in my landscape configuration, or is it something wrong with my network settings? I'd like to get Landscape configured. Thanks!

I have multiple mac minis running Ubuntu. I'm building a mini cluster. Each has a medium sized drive. I was wondering if there was a way I could turn a portion of each drive into a shared NAS/NFS of sorts. I realize it wouldn't be the fastest solution, but I'm looking for a way to utilize all the storage.

Basically what I am looking for is a way to take 100 GB from 5 different machines and have it appear as a 500 GB shared volume. Is this even possible, or is it just a really bad idea?

Just got a new netbook running Ubuntu. When I turn it on it auto-logs-in to the desktop automatically, but when I try to connect to the wireless network it wants my Keyring password to store the password. Problem is it isn't in the documentation (yes, I read the documentation.)

I see a lot of people asking about "Enter password to unlock your login keyring" and the cause usually centers around either they forgot the password, or the keyring password is different than the login password. So the advice is either how to change the keyring password to match the login, or deleting the keyring and creating a new one with a password they remember.

While I could delete and recreate the keyring, I still wouldn't know the login password. Without the login password I cannot run sudo either. I tried blank for the keyring password and that didn't work either.

Also, I know that the root password is blank, and the account is disabled. So I am not asking about that.

Question comes down to this: Is there a way to discover the password for the account that was auto-logged in? If not can I change it? I'm up for reinstalling if I have to, but would rather not. Besides, it is a netbook and does not have a optical drive.