On 05/04/13 18:58, Kevin Lucas wrote:
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 18:02 +0100, Manipula wrote:
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:
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.
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
Does anyone on the list have any suggestions etc about this?
Thanks
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!
I must confess I go me a viglen for about £80 which barely has the
power to calculate pi to one place but runs on £1 of electricity a
year and will run most of the above in a home environment - unless
someone demands instant everything. The machine is a little slow in
terms of gui but seems to manage most things fine.
Tom te tom te tom
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