[Gloucs] Ubuntu support in Toddington

[John Moorhouse]

Lyndon, many thanks for your offer.

It is a home spun NAS, high end quad core i5 processor, lots of RAM, a SSD for the boot drive and something in the order of 8+  2Tb SATA drives configured as RAID mirrors.

It has a Ubuntu server OS installed and I normally configure it via web-min over the internet, but this current problem means that it doesn’t get that far, so the apache / mysql servers aren’t running, it seems to be more an issue of accessing the boot SSD drive for the core OS rather than any of the specific NAS stuff

There is a full console Keyboard / Mouse / attached to it. 

The trust has a website http://www.pettrust.org.uk/ with map etc on it, can I suggest you liaise with Craig Fees who is the trust archivist, who does almost all of the IT work there and he will be able to sort your access and will be able to help you there, in terms of usernames / passwords etc Craig has those.

Dependant on when you arrange to go over, I would probably be able to support you on the phone as needed.

Craigs contact details are

Dr. Craig Fees,
Archivist
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre: "Archive of the Year 2013"; "Most Impactful Archive 2012"
Church Lane
Toddington near Cheltenham
Glos. GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom

PHONE: 01242 620125

Many thanks again for coming forward to support us.

Regards

John




> On 10 Feb 2017, at 15:01, Lyndon <ldeevans at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/02/2017 13:33, Glyn Davies via gloucs wrote:
>> GlosLUG and Malvern LUG members.
>> 
>> Received this email and John was happy for me to forward it to the LUG
>> mailing lists.
>> If you feel you can help, I'm sure he will be please to hear from you.
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: John Moorhouse <john.moorhouse at 3jays.me.uk>
>> Date: 9 February 2017 at 13:22
>> Subject: Ubuntu support in Toddington
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I work with a small charity based in Toddington, near Winchcombe, we have a
>> NAS based on Ubuntu that is after 5 years giving problems, it appear to not
>> be finding / running the ubuntu OS on boot up. I now live in mid wales, and
>> am an active member of Powys Linux User Group, I am wondering if you have a
>> local member who would be able & willing to look at the NAS, some funding
>> would be available to meet reasonable costs / charges.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Hi John,
> I live near Cleeve, within easy cycling distance, so can pop over and have a look this weekend?
> Do you know what NAS it is? Although I have a very small amount of exposure to NAS's in
> general, I'm expecting it's accessible via network (user/admin/pw required, at least until its fixed?),
> or even a console of some kind?
> As it's a charity and it's Linux/LUG related I don't expect any remuneration.
> Kind Regards,
> Lyndon