JonathanM

Using this plugin? Dunno, I'm doing it the easy way, using Binhex's excellent VPN enabled dockers. He builds them with failsafes against accidental IP leakage, and as a bonus has privoxy baked in so you can use the same VPN tunnel to browse through if you want. I wouldn't use this plugin to connect to a VPN service, it's meant for you to create a private tunnel to allow secure remote access for your own devices when you are away from home.

Choose the one you feel fits most for you. Plex based their container on ours, but they are still to completely separated containers. For every day use, you shouldn't see any difference with any of the two. I think the better question to ask is who will support you better, and who will stay current better. I honestly don't know the answer, as I've never dealt with plex official support, if there is such a beast. (disclaimer, I don't use plex, I use emby)

Not reliably. I suggest you look into something like acronis or similar software that will run inside the VM, so that it can be aware of pending file system changes and use shadow copies to make a successful backup. As a side note, a windows 10 VM with no scheduled downtime? Really? You are aware that MS is going to be constantly fighting you for control of updates, and attempting to restart the machine at what will end up being the most inconvenient times. There have already been several automatic update bypasses that MS has disabled, it's going to be an ongoing battle to maintain control.

Yes, that's normal. Enter the privoxy info in the proxy settings for the browser, then visit a page like https://www.whatismyip.com/ and see what external IP is reported compared to visiting the same page without the proxy. BTW, if you are really concerned about privacy and making sure you are not leaking info, you should not continue to use the same browser through the VPN. Tracking cookies and the like will continue to work, and can seamlessly link your VPN and normal profiles. Real privacy is hard, and a subject not well suited for this forum.

Until you experience issues, leave it be. Many people experience performance issues with Reiser, ranging from slow writes to complete lockups. If your system is running well, no need to switch.

Usually that means you have something filled out wrong in the VPN section of the docker config page, like wrong user or password or something. Who is your VPN provider? These VPN enabled containers won't run unless the VPN is working correctly if you set it to use the VPN, that's a safety feature to keep you from thinking it's working when it's not, and leaking info. Have you read the general support thread for binhex's dockers? http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=45811.0

Yep, no way to change file systems and rebuild to a new drive at the same time, you have to copy the data. At this point, it's probably going to be quicker to go ahead and add the new 2TB to the array, format it as XFS, and copy the data back over again from the 1TB Reiser disk. If you recreate the partition the way UD set it up, the original data will probably show up intact, but you still will have to repartition and format it to add it to the array. I can't think of a way to get around that and still add the drive to the parity protected array.

You can't format a disk with the plugin and then use it on the array, it will appear as unmountable. You can, however, assign the target drive as a single slot cache device, select XFS as the file system, and format it that way. It can then be moved to another system, and / or mounted using UD. Or just copy the files across while it's in the cache slot. What, exactly, are you trying to accomplish? Your post is not fully fleshed out as to why you couldn't just rebuild the new drive in the old drive's slot, which would populate the old drive's data on the new drive.

How on earth did an unsecure machine get outbound internet access in a secure facility? Was the firewall breached somehow? Unraid should never have been allowed on the network in the first place, it's pretty much a security breach waiting to happen.

Could you change the google form type to log the IP address, so that we can see that what is logged is not our own IP? On that same note, are you planning to allow us to peruse the data that you collect on the google form? If you say no, I understand, and don't necessarily object, but it would be nice if you would add a link to the form data on the submission confirmation after you send data.

OFT!!! I have done this because, unfortunately, it is one pair of DNS servers that are available almost everywhere. Do you know of another set of DNS servers which is universally available with all of the baggage? No clue how honest these people are, but at least they claim to do no evil with your data. https://freedns.zone/en/

Any way to anonymize the IP address? Not that I'm aware of if you continue to use google. One reason google is "free" is because they collect every bit of data they can on every user and computer they can. Cross referencing all the little tidbits allows them to sell user profiles as a "product" to advertisers. They can't do that if they can't correlate info somehow. As long as you disclose that google is the one receiving and holding the form data, I see no issue with it. The data really is anonymous to you, and anyone else accessing the forms from outside. It's only google's internal workings that do the correlation and data mining.

I'd like to see google mentioned, since they are the entity that is actually receiving the data on your behalf. That way if I'm watching the bits flow through my router, I'll know with reasonable certainty that a connection from unraid to google is a result of the dialog I just clicked. The "anonymous" wording may be the end result to YOU, but it certainly isn't anonymous to google.

I was thinking about presenting it on first open of Preclear/Unassigned Devices, and let users change it on the Help Section of Preclear Plugin page. Why do you think it should be done after each preclear session? Why not? That way if something did not seems right or there was a problem (or even a recently introduced size or disk model), the user could decide that in this case, he might want to upload the data. If you are going to provide an check-box type option, you might provide an "Ask me each Time" as a third choice to hard 'Yes' or 'No' choice. You are providing this software free to the user base and you do (in my opinion) have the right to be insistent in requesting an upload of the results. Absolutely. I accept as a user of your software that you ask certain things in return to help you. I just ask that you be open and transparent when you make those requests. I would be perfectly fine with a mandatory nag at the end of each preclear that asks "Will you help me improve this software by providing me with the statistical results and / or errors of this preclear?" What I will not stand for is the silent transmission of my information with no explicit permission.

Yes. And not just for the obvious reason of distrust of data collection. Adding a data upload means internet connectivity is expected, and data will be traveling. I prefer to be able to isolate a system if necessary without sacrificing functionality that has no need of internet. A purely local function that breaks because of lack of internet is broken, period. Internet activity and data collection needs to be opt in, not opt out. I understand that forces you to beg people and ask for them to please allow you to collect data, but that's the way it should be. You need to justify to the end user WHY the data you are asking them to send on their dime benefits them as well as you.

BBQ?

He demonstrated it using a Windows 10 VM. What exactly are you asking?

Pretty sure that you hit OK instead of cancel. I haven't looked, but is it possible the dialog is a little ambiguous? If I hit NO on a proceed, followed by an OK on a dialog to stop the process, I expect the OK to confirm my previous NO. Wording and placement of confirmation second chance dialogs is tricky.

I am using PIA, specifically the NY node. I'll have to see if it allows incoming. Are there any PIA endpoints with incoming connections in the US... or at least reasonably close? I tried the PIA network speedtest on Germany and Netherlands and it was super slow compared to my primary connection nodes. No USA based PIA endpoints allow incoming. I'm talking out of my rear at this point, but I assumed that was for legal reasons, specifically RIAA MPAA etc.

It can't, unless you change the proxy setting in your browser to point to the privoxy address and port.

Does your VPN service have incoming ports enabled? I know with PIA, only certain endpoints have open ports for incoming connections. Even some pay VPN's don't allow incoming.

Thanks! Teh more you know...

;D I'm dyin' here! ;D Serious question, which I'm sure the internet knows but I'm too lazy to ask, what happens if you have 2 identical user names with different hashes? Do they both work? Neither? Only 1st listed? Only last?

How about a button to push next to the diagnostics button? Something along the lines of "Preview upload system profile to internet", which generates the detected output to a page, along with optional ratings and short comment fields, and has a button at the bottom, "Upload Now". Maybe generate a unique hash of the USB GUID in the submission so the results can be linked to your online profile if you wish, or kept anonymous if you don't tell anyone your hash. Don't allow editing of the hardware profile or hash, just display and submit as is. If you don't want the info sent, don't upload it. Limetech would have a record of which public IP uploaded the profile, but if it's totally voluntary and disclosed, I don't see how anyone would have a serious issue with it.

If there are no unraid disks on the controller, you could pass the entire controller through to the VM, and it would work the way you are expecting. If you can't pass the whole controller, you will need to pass through the individual disks like itimpi said.