WinstonSmith Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I was just given a dell mini 9 and a 300gb wd passport external hd. Is it possible to turn this into a mini media server for me and my friends to access remotely? I've never setup a server before so i wanted this to be a a tiny project. But I have no idea where to start. I'm just a help-desk guy I have no idea how to do these things. And the network admin at my co. has no idea how to help me with this. I would appreciate any form of help. I was looking at ubuntu server ed. tried to install it but I have no idea what I am doing. I wanted mac and pc users to be able to read and write to files. Thanks alot. cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I was just given a dell mini 9 and a 300gb wd passport external hd. Is it possible to turn this into a mini media server for me and my friends to access remotely? I've never setup a server before so i wanted this to be a a tiny project. But I have no idea where to start. I'm just a help-desk guy I have no idea how to do these things. And the network admin at my co. has no idea how to help me with this. I would appreciate any form of help. I was looking at ubuntu server ed. tried to install it but I have no idea what I am doing. I wanted mac and pc users to be able to read and write to files. Thanks alot. cheers, Read about Samba and network file sharing. Will it be just on LAN or over the internet? How much traffic would it see daily? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinstonSmith Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 Read about Samba and network file sharing. Will it be just on LAN or over the internet? How much traffic would it see daily? I wanted to use this as a internet server. And realistically I will not have many users during the day at all.I appreciate your help a lot. I know this is probably small fish for you, and I really appreciate your help. My end goal is to make it far beyond help desk, and possibly a security specialist in the future. I know I have to start at square one. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 will it be streaming media? or just storage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinstonSmith Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 will it be streaming media? or just storage? Storage. I was thinking of it as something they could add files and take files a way from. BUt not have the ability to erase the whole thing of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 then you'll want to go with FTP probably Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmithisme Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I second that, You should use FTP I would say go with Filezilla - http://filezilla-project.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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