Part # 1 is here
Create a Ubuntu VM for PiHole
I run two DNS and
DHCP servers each running Pihole [1] One is on a old crappy laptop that had a
broken screen that I removed and it has serious overheating problem and the
other is a VM I am going to rebuild the VM again.
I am going to SSH
into the VM and create a new user called "pi11" and delete the user
called "test" and then give it a static IP of 192.168.200.10
Set a
Static IP
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
# The loopback
network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet
loopback
# The primary
network interface
# auto ens33
# iface ens33 inet dhcp
auto ens33
iface ens33 inet static
address 192.168.200.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.200.1
dns-nameservers
192.168.200.10
I'm in no rush so I
just reboot
sudo reboot
Is it
working
pi11@pi11:~$ ping google.com
PING google.com
(172.217.12.174) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from
lga25s62-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.12.174): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=123 ms
64 bytes from
lga25s62-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.12.174): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=122 ms
64 bytes from
lga25s62-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.12.174): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=124 ms
64 bytes from
lga25s62-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.12.174): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=122 ms
^C
--- google.com ping
statistics ---
4 packets
transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev
= 122.148/123.235/124.974/1.078 ms
pi11@pi11:~$ nslookup example.com
Server: 192.168.200.10
Address: 192.168.200.10#53
Non-authoritative
answer:
Name: example.com
Address:
93.184.216.34
Create
new user
adduser pi11 # Change username to new user name
Follow the prompts,
add password and if you wan, Some fields can left blank
Use the usermod
command to add the user to the sudo group.
usermod -aG sudo pi11
Let's see if it
worked by logging on to the new account
su - pi11
I Would test if sudo
is working properly before proceeding
Delete
old user
I am doing this
while I'm still in the pi11 user
This command deletes
the user and the home folder for it.
sudo deluser --remove-home test
If you do not want
to delete the users folder use this command
(deluser test)
Edit
the samba config file for the new user
It's still on the
old user who does not exist anymore.
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
[Home_pi11] # I
add this so I don't get confused with my other Pihole, It's just a display name
call it whatever.
path = /home/pi11
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
browsable =yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
Change the
permissions in terminal
sudo chown -R root:users /home/pi11
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /home/pi11
Restart the samba
service and test it after on another machine
sudo systemctl restart smbd.service
sudo systemctl restart nmbd.service
I reboot the
computer to see if it still works
sudo reboot
Change
computer host name
sudo nano /etc/hostname
Delete current
hostname and add pi11
pi11
Add the hostname to
the hosts file
sudo nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 pi11
# The following
lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2
ip6-allrouters
Reboot the VM
sudo reboot
Finally
ready to install Pihole
At the time of this
writing (Jan 2018) The easiest way to install Pihole is:
I made a video of the install.
The commands I used
during the video
To get the big list
To update the new
list
pihole -g
The URL I used to
open Pihole in my browser
Sources
[1]
[2]
