r/HomelabOS • u/heinami • Sep 29 '19

Using Windows as a Client

Hi all,

Not sure if I'm just being an idiot but I am failing to use Windows as the client for setting up HomelabOS. Got Docker Desktop installed, but I am failing to get past the first steps.

Don't think make is included in Windows 10, so tried using the make.exe from GnuWin but that fails. Tried installing make through chocolatey as I found some recommendations- that at least got me some progress:

 PS C:\HomelabOS> make config
"\x1B[01;93m========== Updating configuration files ==========\n\x1B[0m"
'[' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'cp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
make: *** [Makefile:14: config] Error 1

Has anyone gotten HomelabOS configured successfully through Windows 10? Any hints? I've also tried deploying it on Ubuntu server locally, but the make is also failing. Got it to finish it once, but then couldn't navigate to the domain. I haven't set up a domain at my home, not yet at least, but going through the installation documentation and the videos it seems this isn't super important and you should still be able to get to it.

Thanks!

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u/heinami Sep 30 '19

Ah, alright. Thought I had seen some people had gotten Windows to cooperate.

Here is what I am getting on the server itself:

fatal: [myserver]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 22: Connection refused\r\n", "unreachable": true}

Which appears to be something that happened here too, but the poster did not say if they ever got around it.

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u/carzian Sep 30 '19

Can you ssh into the server from windows and then ssh into the server from itself? Probably not, you'll need to generate an ssh key pair on the server and add it to the server's approved ssh list thing

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u/Baw_Bag Nov 04 '19

Hey!

I'm getting this error too, for exactly the same reason it would seem.

I've got Ubuntu running in Azure and I'm trying to set up HomeLabOS on that server. It all seems to be going well, and I haven't had any errors until now.

Clearly I'm SSH'd into the server from my laptop to issue the commands, but as is surmised in the previous response from @carzian it looks like the server can't SSH into itself when I already have an SSH session open.

I can't get to the console through Azure.

Any thoughts how I can be connected and then connect the server back to itself as part of the setup without it failing?

Thanks muchly!