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I have been having issues with smb so I switched to Nfs and after a lot of trouble i worked out to use. Nfs I need to purchase some software as things are a bit tight cash wise at the moment I was thinking of switching my server from WHS 2011 to a Linux distro but I am a complete noob at linux so looking for something easy and reliable I will need the following though
NFS for my Openelec boxes and also be able to. Connect and share content to and from my windows 7 pc
Remote access from my windows pc (will be running headless)
Also if there is a way to use my existing hard drives without having to format them would be good
I have heard fedora , Linux mint and Ubuntu are good not sure though
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2012-07-19, 21:27
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-19, 21:31 by Bunto Skiffler.)
ubuntu server & ssh.
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oye, formatto es hardrivo por favor
ps. they is also nice for a NAS server
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2012-07-20, 01:20
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-20, 01:29 by schneidz.)
try the live-usb for each one you named in your original thread then install the one you like to the hard drive (or just run live).
personnally i like fedora the best but only because i was a red hat administrator in my old job.
on second thought if you are using xbmcbuntu then you can just use/ install that. (xbmcbuntu is technically a linux distro and you can easily apt-get install new software).
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Mythbuntu. Based on Ubuntu and is very lite but feature rich.
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XBMCbuntu, Home Server, Network Setup Example
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Freenas is easy to set up and great for hosting files. If you want easy management and stability I'd go for that. You won't need a lot of hardware capacity either.
If you'd like to run stuff like Sabnzbd and Sickbeard on your server you might want to use ubuntu server or desktop instead because there's no distro that makes it easier to install, configure and maintain the latest versions of any linux compatible software available. Partly because there is so much information available everywhere on the internet.
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thanks for the tips guy i think based on my small linux experience and large amount of online help i am gonna setup ubuntu server (maybe desktop) and install webmin
i have been testing it out the last couple of days and i found i can get shares setup and working as long as they are public guest accounts with no username and password for some reason everytime i tried and account with a password it would not work
but as it is just on my home network i guess it is ok to just use guest accounts but set them to read and write
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Ubuntu server is a good choice for a newbie. I would recommend against Webmin though, I've had bad experiences with it before (admittedly a long time ago). If it works for you then it's fine.
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Start by asking "what will I use this system for".
If it's *just* fileserving - NFS and SMB - then FreeNAS or similar will almost certainly work fine.
If you want to use TV tuners, and want to use Myth, then Mythbuntu is the way to go - but not if you want to use, say, tvheadend, or even realistically try a different backend.
If you want to use the system as a desktop PC - say, running OpenOffice (MS Office compatible), GIMP (graphics), Handbrake (video re-encoding) and similar - then an Ubuntu derivative is probably best (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, etc.). These also have the advantage of mostly having GUI admin tools for many tasks, so you won't necessarily need Webmin. That said, you say "headless" so you may wish to ignore this angle!
And of that crop, Xubuntu is probably the lightest mainstream distro, Mint is the most complete out-of-the-box, and "proper" Ubuntu is the biggest culture shock if you're coming from Windows because of the Unity interface.
Reformatting drives... the one the OS is on, yes, that'll be reformatted; if you have separate drives with media on then you can theoretically keep those, although the Linux native filesystems are better suited (and, some would say, simply "better") - so reformatting those as well would be a good idea.