I have had alot experience getting Sonicwall NetExtender to work in Linux.. sometimes it installs fine, sometimes it doesn’t.

Typically the process is thus:

#1 You visit the URL of your Sonicwall.
#2 Login
#3 Download the tar.gz file for NetExtender once it figures out you are using Linux.
#4 Extract this file someplace.
#5 In a terminal you need to launch the “install” script that is included as sudo, not root, because it won’t let you.
sudo ./install

However…

In this version of ubuntu (XFCE, Xubuntu 11.10) I got an error about libssl missing.

So.. I installed the 32bit libssl and everything seemed to work out fine.

sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8:i386

I moved to FL, and got Comcast.. and my comcast doesn’t like to keep my IP the same.. I have a domain and while in Nebraska under Time Warner.. my IP address more or less stayed the same for years only changing once.. but here, no such luck.. and I need to pretty much dial home on occasion.. and I’ll explain how I do that later.. but anyhow.. whats a boy to do??

I hope you’ve heard of dyndns.com, they allow you to create a free subdomain address then use some software, in tis case ddclient on ubuntu, to feed it what your ip is.

So Step 1: go to http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-free/ and make at least a free account, and decide whatever you want your domain to be.. mine will be something like..

supersexytodd.dyndns.org

(not really me k?)

once done on your Ubuntu.. you need to install ddclient

sudo apt-get install ddclient

during installation you will see a configuration menu.

And thats it, ddclient should push your dynamic ip to dyndns.. so that you can use DNS to sort out what your IP is even when you are away from home.

I’m moving things from one machine to another and I setup an AFP share and not an SMB share on a mac where I need to transfer my files.. I could just turn on SMB.. but whats the fun in that?

To install AFP support for Ubuntu you must first install these packages:

sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev libreadline-dev libgcrypt-dev libgmp3-dev

Then you need to download the AfpFs-Ng source files from sourceforge and compile them.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/afpfs-ng/

you unzip those files into a directory, and cd into it, then type::
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Then to mount your share you type, as a regular user:

mount_afp 'afp://user:password@servername/sharename' /placewhereyouwannamountit/

To unmount you type:

afp_client unmount /mountname/