This is what worked for me. I went through trial and error completely reformatting the drive each time until I got a clean install and it worked great. Fedora 31 will not show a mouse cursor on a Supermicro server but Fedora 32 (beta) does so I used it there as well. Setting up linux cinnamon 32 on a laptop/workstation (Mine was an Acer 5745g with nvidia GTforce 330m) I used btrfs file system – swap double the RAM size and 2GB boot partition – it works great I used a 256gb SSD Hostnamectl set-hostname mynewcomputername (where mynewcomputername is the new hostname) Disable selinux (it’s a pain in the ass) edit /etc/selinux config file set selinux to disabled and reboot SAMBA – what a problem (you can just copy these commands into a terminal and run ******) dnf –y install samba systemctl enable smb systemctl start smb systemctl enable nmb systemctl start nmb Open port with using service file of firewall-cmd. (script again *****) $ sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=samba –permanent $ sudo firewall-cmd --reload firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=137/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=137/udp –permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=138/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=138/udp –permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=139/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=139/udp –permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=445/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=445/udp --permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=137/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=138/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=139/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=445/tcp --permanent Samba users and shares allowing access to Samba user above # smbpasswd -a testuser (where testuser is your username) New SMB password: Enter a password Retype new SMB password: Enter the same password again Added user testuser. On Fedora boxes Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf – These worked for F32 Beta #### [global] Workgroup = YOURWORKGROUPNAME (where YOURWORKGROUPNAME is the workgroup name) security = user passdb backend = tdbsam wins support = yes netbios name = mynewcomputername or whatever you desire name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast host #end for beta To setup an external XFS drive Fdisk –l - get the device name of the second drive (i.e. sdb) cd/mnt mkdir Plexdrive mount –o inode64 /dev/sdb /mnt/Plexdrive or more permanent /etc/fstab UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /mnt/Plexdrive xfs defaults 0 0 For shares [Movies] path = /mnt/Plexdrive/Movies (this is for the external – change as needed) browseable = yes read only = no ( I run only on a local net where I copy files to it) valid users = yourusername Run smbclient -U username -L localhost –W YOURWORKGROUPNAME to list the available shares, where username is the Samba account added in step 7. When prompted for a password, enter the password assigned to the Samba account above at the smbpasswd add. dnf –y install wsdd wsdd.service looks like this [Unit] Description=Web Services Dynamic Discovery host daemon Requires=network-online.target After=network.target network-online.target multi-user.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/wsdd -w YOURWORKGROUPNAME [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target copy wsdd.service with WORKGROUP name in it to /etc/systemd/system systemctl enable wsdd systemctl start wsdd REBOOT at this point To Access older Linux devices from Windows 10 Control Panel, Programs, Windows Features, turn on SMB1 CIFS client Reboot – ironically these were required for the full release of Fedora 32. For older client access add this to the /etc/samba/smb.conf in global section client min protocol = CORE server min protocol = CORE max protocol = SMB2 Systemctl reenable smb nmb systemctl restart smb nmb 3 If SELinux kept on enable access to home directory without samba_share_t label. $ setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs on setsebool –P samba_export_all_rw=1 service smb status service nmb status Therefore smbclient could be convinced to connect by: $ smbclient --user=testuser --ip-address=127.0.0.1 --option='client min protocol = CORE' //testhost/C testtest Or setting 'client min protocol = CORE' globally in /etc/samba/smb.conf. **************** To allow Remote Desktop Access to this machine: *********************** dnf –y install xrdp systemctl enable xrdp.service systemctl start xrdp.service systemctl enable xrdp-sesman.service systemctl start xrdp-sesman.service firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=3389/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=3389/udp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=3350/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=3350/udp –permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=6789/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=6789/udp –permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=3389/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=3389/udp --permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=3350/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --add-source-port=3350/udp --permanent firewall-cmd –reload If you have problems attaching vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; cinnamon-session edit the file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and set allowed_users=anybody there. sudo sed -i \ 's/allowed_users=console/allowed_users=anybody/' /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config systemctl stop firewalld systemctl start firewalld systemctl status firewalld (is it up?) Note: if you experiencing bug: xrdp fails to start with permission denied error https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177202 this is the workaround: # chcon --type=bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp # chcon --type=bin_t /usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman # systemctl reenable xrdp.service # systemctl start xrdp.service You may have to add .xsession to yourusername /home/yourusername Possible look at /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini and sesman.ini Something weird about hostname.local controlled by mDNS and avahi Possibly systemctl disable avahi-daemon Possibly ln –sF /run/system/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf Reversal is rm /etc/resolv.conf Restore firefox .json backup dnf –y update -add negativo17 stuff https://negativo17.org download ONLY the multimedia repo Installing HandBrake/MakeMKV (Must do this BEFORE rpmfusion repo is added) To install the repository on a supported Fedora distribution, run as root the following command: dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora- multimedia.repo To install the repository on CentOS/RHEL: yum-config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/epel- multimedia.repo 5 yum/dnf -y install HandBrake-gui HandBrake-cli yum/dnf -y install makemkv Registering MakeMKV to avoid expiration Please use the provided beta registration key published by the developers: http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053 After starting MakeMKV just press the “Register” button and paste the provided code. Run Makemkv and change expert advanced preferences ccextractor to /usr/bin Brother Printers socket://10.0.0.115 for color HL-3170-cdw socket://10.0.0.43 for MFC-7860dw then restart cups systemctl stop cups systemctl start cups If you get a notification that SeLinux has problems with brcupsconfig3 setsebool -P cups_execmem 1 Add RPMFusion to repositories – needed for audio stuff. To enable access to both the free and the nonfree repository use the following command: Fedora 22 and later: sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion- free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree- release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm dnf update -y laptop - dnf -y install gimp – themes icons legacy dnf -y install vlc (Video Player) laptop - dnf -y install audacity dnf -y install java laptop - dnf -y install inkscape – tango icon theme (Vector graphics) laptop - dnf -y install filezilla (FTP package) laptop - dnf -y install clementine (Music Player) laptop – dnf –y install krita (paint package) laptop – dnf –y install scribus (Publishing package) laptop – dnf -y install ffmpeg (music and video stuff) Copy music from old machine to new then fix audio drivers For Netgear NAS (Readynas Duo) Download the Linux version of Netgear RaidAR https://kb.netgear.com/20684/ReadyNAS-Downloads Add these commands firewall-cmd –permanent –add-source-port=22081/udp –zone=public firewall-cmd --reload If Updating from Fedora 31 to 32 dnf upgrade –refresh dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32 dnf system-upgrade reboot To enable shortcuts to open as root https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic?t=191711 sudo visudo %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL To run Windows programs dnf –y install wine For iTunes you need version 12.3.0 or earlier or you will get a black app screen For Fedora32 – need to downgrade Wine to 5.5-1 from 5.6-1 so iTunes works Change any playlists to: Z:\home\yourusername\Music\..... iTunes Media Library.xml file://localhost/Z:/home/yourusername/Music/.... If you have nVidia drivers and get a popup that your video card is not recognized Follow instructions at https://if-not-true-then-false Fedora 19 nvidia driver update https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/fedora-19-nvidia-guide/ lspci |grep -i VGA ## Example output ## 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce G210] (rev a2) Dnf localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion- nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm 2.4 Install nVidia proprietary drivers for GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700