Video Tut: Arch Linux (x64) Dedicated Server Setup (vncserver, lxde)

Harha · 2014-04-27 21:15:40

I was bored this evening so I decided to throw a small video tutorial together about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-jcl9an3es

Could this be useful for some people? Oh and if you guys have any constructive feedback to say about the video please tell me.

And yeah I know, you shouldn't be using Arch if you need a video tutorial for installing it. It's meant to be a shortcut for people who already know most of their shit but can't be arsed to google around for a few commands and procedures they can't remember IF they can check them all from one package.

Last edited by Harha (2014-04-27 21:51:07)

Rexilion · 2014-04-28 08:52:53

First 8 minutes and 50 seconds contain configuring the VM and installing Arch. Maybe seperate that?

I cannot open your FTP from chromium. Filezilla works.

I don't see any OpenSSH, VNC is very insecure to be exposed.

Harha · 2014-04-28 11:16:04

Rexilion wrote:

First 8 minutes and 50 seconds contain configuring the VM and installing Arch. Maybe seperate that?
I cannot open your FTP from chromium. Filezilla works.
I don't see any OpenSSH, VNC is very insecure to be exposed.

Hmmh... Good points. I don't think the beginning of the video needs to be separated, but oh well, I could put a caption there which would indicate viewer to skip through the beginning if he wishes I guess...

Anonymous FTP browsing Is working fine for me via browser? I even asked a few friends of mine to check and for both of them it worked in Chrome, Firefox and IE.

And about OpenSSH, I should've really included that in the video, god damnit, how can I forget something as essential as that? I guess I'll have to make a part 2 for it plus a few other things when I find some free time again... And using VNC for a remote desktop experience is just something I prefer.

Thanks for the feedback!

Last edited by Harha (2014-04-28 11:17:46)

Rexilion · 2014-04-28 12:04:27

If I go to ftp://harha.us.to/public/ then everything works on all browser. But not when I go to the youtube_tutorial directory in one go.

Odd, must be a bug in my browser then.

tomk · 2014-04-28 12:19:29

Personally, I hate video tutorials, regardless of the topic, but that might be just me. Nothing beats well-written documentation IMO.

Bearing in mind that I haven't watched it, I'm just curious why you need a DE on server?

Rexilion · 2014-04-28 13:16:04

tomk wrote:

Personally, I hate video tutorials, regardless of the topic, but that might be just me. Nothing beats well-written documentation IMO.
Bearing in mind that I haven't watched it, I'm just curious why you need a DE on server?

Because it does need something to display for the VNC connection?

tomk · 2014-04-28 13:55:48

And I thought he was only using VNC because he had decided to put a DE on there....

I guess this thread just isn't for me, so I'll wish you good luck, Harha, and be on my way.

Harha · 2014-04-28 15:11:29

tomk wrote:

And I thought he was only using VNC because he had decided to put a DE on there....
I guess this thread just isn't for me, so I'll wish you good luck, Harha, and be on my way.

It's just my own personal preference to have at least some sort of remote desktop setup running in my own server machine so I decided to include it in the video.

VNC Isn't the most secure way to do that I know, and all in all a server doesn't really require any kind of desktop/window manager/whatever graphical running inside itself draining resources but I could't care less about that. I just thought that there may be people out there who want to have similar setup to mine on their server. And why lxde? Just a personal preference once again...

Anyways, thanks.

Last edited by Harha (2014-04-28 15:12:15)

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