Category: PiPad Setup

  • On Demand CIFS Network Shares On Your Pi with autofs

    On Demand CIFS Network Shares On Your Pi with autofs

    Why autofs? autofs is great for mounting shares from networks that aren’t always available – particularly at boot time if you have to wait for a network device to initialise or a VPN to establish a connection. Installation Configuration autofs is configured by editing the Master Map File located at /etc/auto.master. Here is the default…


  • Install syncthing on the Raspberry Pi

    Install syncthing on the Raspberry Pi

    pre requisites apt-transport-https Install syncthing CREATE AND EDIT THE CONFIG FILE Now we need to change the address line to either the IP address of your Pi or to all addresses on your Pi “0.0.0.0”. So replace the address line with for example: <address>0.0.0.0:8384</address> Set syncthing to start as a service The paste the following…


  • Installing code-server on Your Pi

    Installing code-server on Your Pi

    Pre Requisites Always update your Pi first. We will use npm (bundled with nodejs) to install yarn because at the time of writing it has proved problematic to use npm to install code-server. Install code-server Create Initial Config File And Edit It Kill the program with ctrl-c and then edit the config file. Change the…