How to Setup Ubuntu File Server

[xarquid]

It can be accessed by Windows (of any version), Macs, Linux etc. etc. all across your home network!

Posted by How To Forge:

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-home-fileserver

Excellent Guide.

After you're done setting it up...it won't even need a monitor!! So, you can just dig out or build a "cheap bare bones" PC and use it as a file server for around your house for files, mp3s and old file storage. Great idea.

XQ

[Flare183]

Awesome HOWTO!

[brodiepearce]

I don't understand why it was necessary in that guide to format the storage drive/array in NTFS.

Windows machines won't be interfacing directly with that drive... wouldn't any of the decent Linux file-systems have been fine?

*edit*

Forgot the opening paragraph... NTFS formatting so it can be physically swapped between Windows PCs and the server.

[tryorke]

i just setup a server following the directions (hardy server), and yet my hardy desktop cannot access the server. is there something additional i need to do on the client machines?

[WillT87]

Awesome thanks for posting

[aago1254]

i just setup a server following the directions (hardy server), and yet my hardy desktop cannot access the server. is there something additional i need to do on the client machines?


please note you still have to be in the same work group. also in ubuntu desktop you have to slecet a netowrk to connect to and put in your server info quite easy.
ubuntu desktop is easier to network share than windows

[DivineTemplar]

This guide might come in handy for me in the future. Bookmarked for future reference.

The last attempts I made at creating a home media server were based upon using an old Xbox, and it worked out pretty well in fact. I haven't had a need for one or a spare computer to use to create a new one since I left that old one in the move, but it is always good to keep options open for when the time comes again that I have both the equipment and the desire to make one.

Thanks for sharing this with us.