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Kadafi

Kadafi

Kadafi

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hi guys, i currently have a shabby box running XP to share all my files on our lan. but when I move i want to setup something a bit better. my requirements are:

- i want the server pc to be headless as its goin to get stuffed in a hole somewhere
- to share files (presumably through samba) to various OS's eg XP (& media center), mac tiger, linux and an xbox 360
- file sharing over the internet to multiple users on various OS's
- pc contains an Adaptec 4 port sata-2 PCI raid controller compatability issues?
- possible logon system from said OS's although this mite be more hassle than its worth at the moment.

I have a basic understanding of Ubuntu at the moment, but i dont mind throwing myself in at the deep end. Ive set up a basic samba share before but nothing this elaborate. ive also never setup file sharing over the net or ftp so i have no idea about that at the moment.

any recommendations on an OS and how id go about setting this up?

cheers
 
Any Linux distro would be just fine for this. All remote administration can be conducted over ssh from any of those OSes, natively on the OS Xes and with PuTTY on Windows. If you want to get really fancy and you have a GUI installed on the server, you could use VNC from all those OSes to use it graphically.

Samba will do what you mention above. For the internet file sharing you'd probably want an FTP server running, though through awesome trickery ssh can do this. A real FTP server would be easier. :)

Regarding the RAID card, we'd have to know more about the actual hardware on the card. If you boot up a Linux live cd, open a terminal window and run the command
lspci
and paste the results here. It'll tell us what chipset the card is using.
 
Have a look at the "Perfect Setup" guides on http://howtoforge.com/ for your distro of choice. Should pretty much cover everything you'll need for home server software setup.

You might also want to check up on XBox 360/Mac support of ext2/ext3 file system support as I'm not sure how they'll handle Linux file systems (wouldn't expect too much of a problem).
 
afraser2k said:
You might also want to check up on XBox 360/Mac support of ext2/ext3 file system support as I'm not sure how they'll handle Linux file systems (wouldn't expect too much of a problem).
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When sharing over a network, there is no point at which the filesystems in use by either the client or host matters. It's simply sending the bits that make up the file.
 
Just one thing to add to the above, i would recommend locking down samba access to just the IPs within your LAN, then use SFTP for remote file access, all you will need is the SSH daemon running and have local accounts set up for your remote users to login with, this will give you much more security than plain FTP.

I would also suggest getting SWAT up and running, its a visual web based front end to samba and allows for much easier configuration if your starting off and dont want to dive into the configs.
 
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