Re: [LUG] Home server

[Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 18:02 +0100, Manipula wrote:
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>     Im looking for an old pc for a home server so you coukd sell it to me :-)
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>     Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>     I sometimes come across mention of setting up a home server with Linux, 
>     so I have been Googling a bit. My current desktop is fairly new and my 
>     old machine is lying around in a cupboard somewhere doing nothing.
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>     It occurs to me that I could use it (the old machine) to set up a server 
>     to see what it is all about. If nothing else I could use it to learn 
>     something about it all works
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>     Does anyone on the list have any suggestions etc about this?
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>     Thanks
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>     Neil
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Yes its easy Just look at http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/479960:the-six-best-linux-community-server-distributions

and choose a server Distro 

I like Fedora personally but all are capable.

Some things you need to set up are possibly

Samba (http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora-17-samba-standalone-server-with-tdbsam-backend)

Mail (http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/) nice for Ubuntu

Webserver (apache) (php)(http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch20_:_The_Apache_Web_Server#.UV8KJqr_PBU )

MySql Databases (http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMySQL.html) avoids common pitfalls and shows the use of the command line first before getting messed up in a GUI

Ssh (use the commandline distro installer yum, apt-get etc.)
Cups Printing (same as above then http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/overview.html)

then play with Disks, adding more or set up RAID (need three similar disks) 

once the distro is installed and ssh is working on the Network you don't need a monitor!

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