Got my server running and most everything is working ok. Got two issues I’m having trouble with.
First is that mempool, core-lightening, and Ride the Lightning links only work on the local machine. When I click the links in a browser that isn’t on the server, they don’t work correctly because I’m sure I need to have some proxy setting set for this to point to the server and then to the docker containers that are running those maybe?
Second, I’m trying to get copy/paste to work from the vmware console. I installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop on a chrooted session and verified it remained installed and is currently active when I do a systemctl status open-vm-tools. I added the 3 settings into the advanced options in the guest settings. (isolation.tools.copy.disable, set to FALSE, isolation.tools.paste.disable set to FALSE, and isolation.tools.SetGUIOptions.enable set to TRUE. I realize that StartOS doesn’t exactly run the same GUI as a normal Debian box, so this is probably the issue. Just wanted to see if anyone else has a similar setup and has it working.
Ditch any attempt to run this as a “PC” with any kind of screen. Run it headless. It’ll need an IP address, you’ll need to be able to have mDNS addresses resolve to that IP address on your network and across the VM host, and you’ll need to complete the extensive guides to set up the client device you use to access the headless server.
Awesome. Thanks man. I got mDNS going and that fixed my issue with the links for the other apps. Now that this works, I really don’t have a need to resolve the second issue technically, although my curiosity does get the best of me wondering why it doesn’t work.
After reading many posts around the web, most people concluded for Windows 11/10 it was just easiest to install Bonjour from Apple. I installed the print server client from here Download Bonjour Print Services for Windows v2.0.2 - Apple Support. Didn’t need to reboot, it worked immediately afterwards.
I first tried enabling mDNS on the StartOS by entering chroot and editing the /etc/systemd/resolved.conf file. I deleted the # in front of MulticastDNS=yes, saved then exit and rebooted. I then created a registry key at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient and added DWORDS “EnableMulticast” set to 1 and “mDNSEnabled” set to 1 and rebooted. This did’t seem to work. So I then installed Bonjour and worked like a champ first time. So I’m not really sure if anything I did before installing Bonjour actually helped or not, but if I ever have to setup again, I’ll reverse the steps and see if installing Bonjour works without doing anything else.
