[Lancaster] n00b!

[Darren Poulson]

On Sunday 20 March 2005 4:53 pm, Dave Smith wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Just a few, not necessarily related, questions I have flying around my
> head that I thought I could seek some advice on!
>
> Mainly, I'm seeking some reccomendations. When I get back to the UK I
> intend to finally sort out my home network the way I've meant to for the
> last 6 months but hopefully succesfully this time!
>
> My ideas were to have one 'home' server hosting an intranet page and
> file shares, along with being a DAAP server for my music collection.
> I can't see any obvious reasons why it wouldn't be, but is it possible
> to successfully sort all three running on the one machine? Any specific
> issues I should look out for RE: Server Machine Spec?
> Presumably its easiest if I use SAMBA for the file shares (the

If you want to share out file systems, use samba for windows machines but NFS 
for *nix (including Mac OS X). Personally I've no samba shares (no windows 
machines!) and use NFS for mounting my home directories on my linux 
workstations and my iBook.

As for spec, I'm running a large file server, ldap server, web server, email 
server, mythtv backend (have a look at this project... really nice!) and 
slimserver for streaming mp3's all on a 2 gig AMD, with 3/4 gig of memory!

> connections are likely to be other Linux Boxes, Some Windoze boxes and
> maybe Mac OSX), Apache locally for the Intranet site, and then one of
> the OS DAAP server projects for the music.
> Does anyone have any experience with the possible DAAP server software
> out there, and similarly any preferred client-side apps for the linux
> systems (The Mac and Doze boxes will most likely run iTunes). I was
> looking at DAAPD for the server side stuff and maybe AppleRecords or
> TunesBrowser client-side. Anybody have any knowledge or stories about
> either of these? To my knowledge, there's no XMMS Plugin for DAAP yet,
> but I have only been able to scan briefly.

Not had any experience with DAAP, but after you've mentioned it and I've had a 
look, it looks quite interesting! Cheers!

>
> Similarly, any favoured OS of choice for the server from anyone? I'm
> really wanting to get into using Debian and get to grips with that at
> some point, but do people favour anything else?

Personally, I like Mandrake. Nice and easy to set up, and urpmi is excellent! 
Had a mess around with debian, and started on slackware many many years ago 
when first getting into linux. These days I just go for the easy to admin 
choice!

>
> There were other things I was going to try and bombard you all with but
> I'll cross that bridge when I come to it....

Bombard away, thats what we're here for!

>
> Sorry for the list. I've just recently 'revived' my efforts with
> Linux/Unix after having a break of sorts (powered by my laziness/lack of
> time and willingness to play games...). At the moment I'm running OSX
> and YellowDogLinux dual-boot on a Powerbook. I'm toying with the idea of
> switiching full on to YDL or another PPC flavour while I'm away, ideally
> switching everything to the same setup in the end (ie running home PCs
> on the same Linux flavour, similar setup etc). As it stands I'm
> currently in the desert for a few more months so any and all reading
> material is useful!
>
> Thanks in advance, apologies for the lack of 'flow' with the writing...
>

HTH,

Darren.

> Dave
>
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