first hitch: the file server can't find the ZFS kernel modules. probably because i ran an update at some point before shutting it down but never restarted it, so the modules didn't get put in the right place? who fuckin' knows, i'm trying that.
this is going to be somewhat of a temporary setup that's living at a friend's house for a bit, so i can't rely on the assumptions of my previous home network. which had kerberos authentication and an entirely separate machine from the file server solely to be a hypervisor. plex itself runs on a separate NUC with an eGPU, because i simply cannot ever build a network that isn't at least a little distributed.
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh file server's happy, after upgrading the zfs-release package so it would actually get packages that play nice with the newer kernels. duh.
most annoying part of all this is that i've only got one monitor, so i have to constantly swap machines around. haymarket's running fine on the network though so i should be able to reboot it headless and then see what the NUC's going to complain about on boot.
since this two-machine setup is going to live on someone else's lan, i spent a lot of time wondering why the hell hostname.local dns resolution didn't work until i remembered that i didn't install avahi, since my old network handled local hostnames at the dns level instead of, you know, just using zeroconf like normal people do
the bigger problem is that sonarr and radarr live on one of those machines that's currently in storage and won't be back for a while. so i'm going to have to set those up from scratch, somewhat annoyingly. that setup was janky as all heck, though, so it's probably for the best.
it's 23:07 and i might actually get plex running, depending on how long copley takes to run a software update, by midnight.
once i fixed the NFS exports to coöperate with the address space this piece of shit comcast router uses, i started plex and it just... worked. no complaints. remote access literally just worked without me having to poke any settings.
fuck yes. i sent the message to the server's discord at 23:36, so i was right about getting it done before midnight. (if you don't count the downloading robots. i'm not going to count them, and that's definitely a job for tomorrow.)
