Re: Low end PC as home server, what package should I install?
- From: David Vincent <dvincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:07:54 -0800
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Neil wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 7:22 AM, David Vincent <dvincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Raymond Lee wrote:
I have an IBM desktop PC (about Windows 98 2nd release(or whatever itMany of us do exactly this. I use the desktop version of Ubuntu and
was called that started support USB devices) time frame). I have added
to a total of 192MB.
I want to turn it into a home server for other machines (one Windows
Vista home basic, one Windows XP Pro) for access of multimedia data
(photos and music) by attaching an 80GB or 160GB PATA drives which are
dirt cheap now. Do you think it is a feasible solution? I think I'll
need Samba. Is it included in the desktop version or the server version
of Ubuntu? Considering the power of the system being on the low end,
should I do Xubuntu? If so, again, is Samba included?
enable Remote Desktop so I can VNC in and use GUI tools. I also install
the OpenSSH Server so I can SSH in and do tasks via the command line if
that is easier.
If this sounds ok, what about I move a step forward by installing a RAIDUbuntu supports Linux RAID so you don't even need any special hardware
adapter and run disk mirroring? Are there any such adapters (PCI bus)
that are supported by Ubuntu?
to make a RAID array - it works with software only. I've got a RAID-5
made of three old 30gb drives. It is really slow performance-wise but
is more than I need for storage of OOo docs, PDFs, etc. etc. (My media
goes on a different server.)ID
Isn't this a little low speed for a software raid? Software raid is a
high resource hug as far as I know.
Do you mean his proposed server-machine or my setup?
In regards to my setup - don't do this at work folks.
Yes, it is slow and low-speed. They are IDE drives wuth ATA33
interfaces. :) Although, the machine has 1gb of RAM in it and never
touches its swap and more than keeps up with my 100mb LAN. It started
as a project to familiarize myself with Linux software RAID and turned
into a file server.
In regards to his setup - it should be fine for home IMHO. He might
want to go with Xubuntu due to the low RAM count, but then he'd have to
join a new mailing list for support. :)
- -d
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