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TheForkOfJustice
May 19th, 2009, 04:20 AM
I wish to be able to reboot/update/shutdown my fileserver remotely from a desktop on the same network. I don't need to have it running when I'm not using it. Wastes electricity.

Also, I managed to get filesharing working but I'm not certain if it is via NFS or Samba since I did both at the same time. How do I check to make sure which one it is?
dmizer
May 19th, 2009, 05:26 AM
If you're just connected by GUI, you're probably sharing via samba. If you still have doubts, try disabling one and accessing the share.

sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop
If you can't access your shares after that command, then your fileserver is configured to share via samba.

To shutdown your server, install openssh server on the fileserver:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Then you can ssh into your file server with the following command:
ssh fileserver-username@fileserver.ip.address
(if you use windows, you can accomplish the same with putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/))

Type this command to shutdown the server:

sudo halt

To start the server, you'll need to configure WOL (wake on lan). Howto here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=234588
TheForkOfJustice
May 19th, 2009, 09:33 PM
If you're just connected by GUI, you're probably sharing via samba. If you still have doubts, try disabling one and accessing the share.

sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop
If you can't access your shares after that command, then your fileserver is configured to share via samba.

I found out something accidentally. If you switch your Nautilus filepath view from buttons to text you'll see "smb:/media/whatever"

It was obviously Samba :)



To shutdown your server, install openssh server on the fileserver:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Then you can ssh into your file server with the following command:
ssh fileserver-username@fileserver.ip.address
(if you use windows, you can accomplish the same with putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/))

Type this command to shutdown the server:

sudo halt

To start the server, you'll need to configure WOL (wake on lan). Howto here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=234588

I'll get right on that. Thank you.