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I'm sorry, but I didn't explain my situation very well. I found an old Gateway 1.6ghz that I had lying around my house, and I just wanted a simple computer I could use for web browsing and to listen...

Does anyone know of a good graphical front-end for the USB mount command?

Ok. Thank you for all the help.

Thank You, Frogs Hair! This webpage you gave me looks like the info I'm needing! Thanks!
https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/emodules/tiling2/

One question I do have after looking at this page .......

Recently I've been trying out different Windows Managers, and I really seem to like the Enlightenment GUI. But I do like the i3 and Awesome GUIs for their Tiling Windows format.

I remember when I...

Sorry, the avahi-daemon itself is what I was asking about. I am using Ubuntu Server 14.04, and no, it was not installed by default.

I do have a Static IP address set up to use with my server. I...

I am wanting to set up a media server, and after looking at different ones, I have decided to use Plex. To understand the process, I've looked at quite a few videos
from Youtube, and as expected,...

Sorry for the confusion everyone, I've never been the best at explaining things.

The basic computer layout that I'm planning on using is:
Internet -> Modem -> Switch -> Slot1: Desktop; Slot2:...

Hi everyone. I have just installed a new media Server for me to store/watch all of my videos on. I was planning on using the
eth0 connection, which has a DHCP IP, to connect to the internet to...

I think I'm just going to go with Lxde. More people are using it, so I can find a lot more information online about it. It also worked just fine right after I installed it from the CLI. Thanks for...

Thanks for the reply. I am running an Ubuntu Server 14.04, so it did not come with a GUI installed. I set it up to use as a media server, and although I have a fairly good understanding of the CLI,...

Hi everyone! I have been trying out different GUI's that are lighter than the regular Gnome and KDE desktop environments. I was trying out one called
Enlightenment, but I've been having errors...

Great! I really only plan on syncing the network server 2 or 3 times a week, so I'll probably run it manually.

Anyway, thanks guys for all the help!

Nice! One last question.

Is there a way to use the rsync command over a local network? This would be used to back up my family's home server (192.168.1.101) onto this backup server.

Maybe:
...

Great, thanks!

Another question; If I copy a new file to /hd-vids/Xmasvids and then run the above command, will it re-copy every file to /Backup/Xmas, or will it just copy the new file?

What...

I have a question on how to sync these files/directories from one directory on my computer to a
backup directory on the same computer.

Is this the correct rsync command? If not, what would it...

Thanks Morbius1! I was all about trying to do this the hard way and didn't even think of going through Windows. I didn't even
worry about mapping it, all I did was simply make a shortcut to get to...

Hi everyone. I'm sure this has a very simple answer, but me being a newbie to using Ubuntu Server and
the CLI, I need some help. I have two media servers set up on my home network.

I already...

All right. Rsync looks like it's what I'll need. Thank you both for the help.

I have just installed Ubuntu Server 10.04LTS and have two 2TB hard drives that I'm using to share my video and music files.
I'm trying to make a mirror copy of directory "/server/" to directory...

I'm planning on installing something like Ubuntu Server to use as a media server on my home network. All I want is a base system with just a few
apps installed instead of something like Windows...

I'm wanting to set up a file server for my home network. I would like all of my home pc's to have access to the server, but I don't want the server itself to be connected to the internet.

In many...

I don't know if I should start this as a new thread or not, but being on the same subject, I'll try here.
I'm also wanting to set up a server to view all of my media from, but I plan on viewing them...

I understand that all of this is what would usually be in the /etc/network/interfaces file. But do I need all of it since all I'm wanting it to do is allow my home network to connect to the server? ...

Hi everyone.
I didn't know if I should ask this here since my question is nearly the same or if I should start a new thread. Anyway, here's my question.

I'm also needing help setting up my IP...