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 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.

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/

Even so. Backup your data.. and make sure you have a Distribution of your choice CD to recover from assuming it jacks up.  Oh and do not come crying to me.

ok so.. This tutorial assumes you have Sudo rights, or are running as root, and that you have an internet connection.

Step 1: You must replace your apt sources.  This means the /etc/apt/sources.list must be edited (or replaced) to contain at least the following lines:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ julia main upstream import
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ julia-kde main upstream import
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ maverick partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ maverick free non-free

If you have any 3rd party sources in many cases changing the line.. “lucid” to “maverick” may be enough to connect you to the new repository. The same lines in the sources.list for the previous version of Mint (Lucid / Isadora) need to be either commented out.. or removed from the document. It would not hurt to backup your sources.list before you did this, but please move it to another folder.

Step #2
sudo apt-get update
to get your package list for apt.

Step #3
sudo apt-get upgrade
this will take a while.. I got an error at the very end with a mint desktop package, but I ignored it, everything else installed.
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
this will update components that are held back by the above, but needed.
sudo apt-get -f install
this fixes some installs that might not have completed with the above.
*note.. it wouldn’t kill you to run these again.. Why? because sometimes they may depend on packages not installed on 10.04 to work.. either way.. I only had errors installing the “mint desktop” program on mine..

Step #4
sudo reboot
and cross your fingers. If it doesn’t work you can boot to a Mint CD or an Ubuntu one and copy your data off and reinstall. but if all went well.. you should boot up to Mint 10.

Step #5
sudo apt-get autoremove
Removes old packages no longer required. This removes old kernels now.
sudo apt-get clean
Removed the deb files cached for your installation.

A Few Notes:

OpenFire needs Java. I may not like Oracle but when it comes to using Java Apps I much prefer Sun Java over Open Java.. because they simply aren’t the same.

I wrote up a document on installing Java on Debian 6 here.

OpenFire is basically XMPP or Jabber.

Step 1 Navigate to the download page and download the deb file for Openfire.

Step 2 Install:

sudo dpkg -i openfire.deb

Step 3 Navigate to the script in a web browser on server port 9090

mine is http://gamera.home.geekliketodd.com:9090

When there you will see a screen asking for your hostname..

You may see the shortname of your server, I typed in the full dns name (routable or not.)

You will then be asked what kind of Database to use, You can choose Embedded, however I made a MySQL DB already and wish to use that.

When specifying my SQL database I choose “mysql” and then I change the Database URL to jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openfire  since my DB is on the same machine and the db name is ‘openfire’

After putting in my DB username and Password, I click next to configure the admin user. I make a password but I leave the default email address.

This will forward you to the admin page, and allow you to make users and set up options.

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free
to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. If I’ve never been clear about how to do that you must open the file as sudo or root in any text editor.

Once this is done you update your apt with sudo apt-get update

Then essentially you type sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk for the Java Dev Kit or choose sun-java6-jre if you just want the JRE for the use of Java.. I tend to pick the JDK because a few apps like it over the JRE.

Note: You can test your Java version with java -version and if you don’t get a Sun Version of Java as a reply then you need to type this: sudo update-alternatives --config java and select the newly installed java which is something like…
There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/gij-4.4 1044 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/gij-4.4 1044 manual mode
2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java 63 manual mode

and in my case I chose # 2

You should be good to go now.. keep in mind this is just java.. if you want the plugin it’s sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

A disclaimer.. I’ve set up Sane on Ubuntu and OpenSuse so this wasn’t my first time trying it.. On OpenSuse I had very little trouble, Yast tends to make things easy, but I had some other issues that I wasn’t interested in tracking down.. and so.. I decided to get my feet wet in Debian 6 since I know it’s gonna trickle down into my life anyhow..

What I’m running all this with:

1. A beat up old Gateway Laptop with a sparse 512mb of Ram and some manner of Athlon processor.. this machine is mostly usable, but the ac adapter plug is a little wonky, and has to be held in place to keep the power on.. well.. as I was once told.. “if you can’t fix it.. Duck it.”  A GENEROUS amount of Black Duct Tape has mostly resolved this issue.

2. A Canon Pixma MP160 MultiFunction Machine. I of course am sharing this machine via CUPS to all the *nix machines in the house.

3. My home network is 192.168.2.0/24  and has about 10 ish or so network devices and only about 5 of which will ever scan, the rest being other stuff.

ON THE SERVER

I install Sane and Sane utils with:

sudo apt-get install sane sane-utils

after you install this you must edit the following files:

/etc/sane.d/saned.conf and add the line 192.168.2.0/24 to allow access from my network to these machines.

/etc/default/saned and the # Set to yes to start saned must be set to RUN=yes

NOTE: I had an additional step, to fix a bug with probably only my particular scanner, but you may run into this.. I had to add the saned user on this machine to the lp group to gain access across the network.

ON THE CLIENTS..

On Linux you do the following:

You Install SANE the same way you do on the server. (I’m a debian guy but the config is the same on any nix system.)

sudo apt-get install sane sane-utils

and you edit this file

/etc/sane.d/net.conf

to contain the ip of the server or it’s resolved server name, which is what I do.

192.168.2.20

if you set it up right, you should be able to use something like..

scanimage -T on the client and you will hear your scanner whir to life and test your device.

In Linux I like using Simple Scan or X-Sane to scan with, But any Sane capable software will work. They don’t require you to configure the application. In Gimp there isn’t native scanning functionality, but never fear, you can make a symbolic link of the xsane binary to the gimp plugins directory under your user’s home. (Thanks to this Link)

todd@gojira:~$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/xsane /home/todd/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins/

On a Mac Client I follow these insructions: http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/ You must install each of those applications per your version of OSX, and then you can open the Sane conifuration pane, and configure the “net” the same way you’d configure it for Linux, by adding the server’s IP address. If you have Photoshop on this mac it will use Sane to Acquire an image if you so desire.

On Windows: As you can imagine with most *nix projects.. windows versions are available.. but are sort of under-developed, it’s like a square peg in a round hole.. however… xsane32 exists for windows. It’s rather old, but is mostly functional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajW2fDy41fY#
I had to promise my wife I wouldn’t install Linux on the toliet.

Here is a link to the video because FB doesn’t like carrying my embeds.. (effing FB)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb50ye-3OJU