I just bought a new ION platform motherboard to put in a file server. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 got video acceleration working and all that. I want to set it up so that I can remotely manage certain things through HTTP (modify shares, start downloads, delete shit, etc) like FreeNAS.

Anyone know of anything like that I can run under apache?

12/29/2009 11:21:25 PM

Why not just do that via SSH?

12/30/2009 2:35:43 AM

because it is a pain in the ass. i could do it using remote desktop, but that's a pain in the ass too.

12/30/2009 3:44:45 AM

you would rather use slow-ass http than ssh?


really?

12/30/2009 4:09:02 AM

If you want easy file server management, install Windows home server.

If you want free file server management, deal with SSH or Remote Desktop

12/30/2009 5:45:41 AM

so why do you need video acceleration on a file server again

12/30/2009 8:20:35 AM

^

I'm with stupid.

12/30/2009 11:49:42 AM

only if you're storing avis and wmvs, right?

[Edited on December 30, 2009 at 12:26 PM. Reason : .]

12/30/2009 12:25:44 PM

did someone say pr0n?

12/30/2009 12:49:08 PM

oh yeah

and you need quickbooks installed if you're keeping copies of your bills

12/30/2009 12:59:20 PM

install windows 7, problem sovled.

12/30/2009 1:15:41 PM

Hey guys, I want to install a free nas software on my computer. FreeNAS does everything I want, so i installed ubuntu. How do i make it like FreeNAS?

12/30/2009 1:23:11 PM

^srsly.

not sure what ION has anything to do with it, nor video. i think he meant Atom/miniITX as the reasons he's putting it in the file server.

12/30/2009 1:41:09 PM

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"so why do you need video acceleration on a file server again"

It's a NAS but I also have XBMC running on it. I needed a media player for one of my rooms in addition to a file server. It wasn't much more expensive than buying a popcorn hour or something similar.

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"If you want easy file server management, install Windows home server. If you want free file server management, deal with SSH or Remote Desktop"

Sharing files via CIFS in Ubuntu is basically the same as in Windows. Right-Click a folder click the sharing menu item, choose users and security, etc. But you're right in that most of what I need can be done with the management console. Out of curiosity, how well would that run on a computer with 512MB of shared (128 going to the GPU, but configurable) memory? Also, does it have NFS support (for my other media players)?

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"Hey guys, I want to install a free nas software on my computer. FreeNAS does everything I want, so i installed ubuntu. How do i make it like FreeNAS?"

FreeNAS does almost none of what I want. I was just using the web management interface as an example.

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"not sure what ION has anything to do with it, nor video. i think he meant Atom/miniITX as the reasons he's putting it in the file server."

Sine the earlier description didn't give it away... it's a media player in addition to a NAS.

12/31/2009 12:22:56 AM