Comments on: 30 Dollars, 30 Minutes, 1 Nice Fileserver

By: vosnul

vosnul — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:54:11 +0000

On such a system you can easily run the latest and greatest kernel and toolset. As long as you do not run a graphics engine, or too many daemons, you’ll be fine.
Even if the performance is slightly less then an older version, you’ll never notice but you would have the latest security at your disposal.

By: I’m a Linux Fan! | UbuntuLinuxHelp Wheatley

I’m a Linux Fan! | UbuntuLinuxHelp Wheatley — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:17:09 +0000

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By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:55:34 +0000

@плoxaя – Спасибо. Это приятно читать.
Извините, что я не говорю по-русски.

Thank you. This is nice to read.
Sorry that I don’t speak Russian.

By: плoxaя

плoxaя — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:10:11 +0000

Это хорошо что вы начали вести блог,ведь у вас это отлично получается и надеюсь будет еще лучше. Главное писать о том,в чем вы разбираетесь. Удачи. :)

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By: Friday Favorites | Scribute

Friday Favorites | Scribute — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:06:47 +0000

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By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:15:02 +0000

@David B – So that I can turn my main computer (the big one) off and leave torrents downloading without interruption. ;)
(And I can access all files from any other computer and always have backups).

By: David B

David B — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:18:29 +0000

Why don’t you just play it from your own computer?

By: FlyCat

FlyCat — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:42:13 +0000

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By: DigitalMind

DigitalMind — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:15:33 +0000

This seems almost overly complicated. I have a pc tucked away running ubuntu with a shared folder on the network that stores my files. When I want to play something, I simply play it over the network via the shared folder. For my downloads, there’s a directory in the shared folder that my torrent client always checks for new torrents and loads them automatically when they appear in the folder. (So I browse for my torrents on whatever PC, then save the torrent in the shared folder) When the download is finished the file is moved to the “downloads” folder so I know it’s been completed. When I need access to the PC, I simply use the remote desktop viewer. (although it’s pretty rare that I need to do anything on it) I’m not sure why it was necessary to install a web server, database, ssh, etc etc .. (Although i’m almost sure there’s a very good reason i’m not thinking of)

Thanks for the great post!

By: whoa

whoa — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:08:05 +0000

I did this once, pentium mmx, 64MB RAM, 2GB HD… debian floppy disks installation… best shell torrent client I’ve found was rtorrent, i believe that was the name… better than many x11 clients, easy keyboard navigation, very deep options per file, file-part, peer, etc…

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:10:44 +0000

@kewl – You must use a static IP address. But, here is a workaround for DHCP: http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/ins.....h-cgi-bin/
(Create a DHCP reservation and configure the host files).
;)

By: kewl

kewl — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:05:53 +0000

is it possible to setup file server using the dynamic address, or a static IP address is a must?
well, I must admit that I am new to networking..

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:01:13 +0000

@nate – Nice suggestion! :) The developer’s blog (for mdadm) is here: http://neil.brown.name/blog/md.....adm

By: nate

nate — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:04:41 +0000

I like to recommend mdadm for software raid using multiple disks. Webmin (great!) also has a utility to help setup the raid configurations through mdadm. I have two 500GB drives in software raid1 for backing up files, and i’ve actually reinstalled the ubuntu server after a failed motherboard, and re-setup the raid using mdadm on the new install and never lost a file. I use vsftpd for an ftp server, never tried anything else because that worked immediately for me, and it does SSL encryption very easily. You can get a vsftpd webmin module to make ftp server setup easier. I’ve also used LLink, which is a great http media streaming program, very easy to setup and provides pretty xml pages for your media.

By: Tom Hanson

Tom Hanson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:34:46 +0000

For people who dont’t want to spend a tonne of money on a new box.

for example the one you have,

Usb hard drives??

i Got a old latitude laptop which i use got it for £15 ($25-$30) then got an usb 500Gb hard drive, low noise, small, and very low power consuption, :)

works a treat thanks to ubuntu :)