Not having enough interesting projects
, I decided to revisit my older project of turning an old Dell into a file server as per this thread.
I did take a look at FreeNAS and have burned an ISO disk, but decided with Ubuntu Server since I already have Ubuntu desktop installed on the disk. It installed painlessly on a logical partition, and was smart enough to write to the boot sector. But NOT smart enough to include a grub entry to include the option to boot into the primary Ubuntu 9.04 desktop partition. I installed SSH and Samba.
ssh works great from my main computer, and I have full access to the server. Interesting to be able to run Ubuntu remotely via a shell. I included an fstab entry on the server to automatically mount the primary 9.04 desktop as a backup partition but it doesn't show up under Network in Nautilus. Also included a Bookmark under Nautilus to automatically connect to the server, which will enable easy copy/paste of files.
The server drive is partitioned as followed:
primary: 30GB Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
logical: 7GB Ubuntu 9.04 Server
I can access the server in Nautilus and copy files to that partition, so I'll likely shrink the primary partition and expand the logical server partition. Or just wipe out the primary Ubuntu desktop partition ... I kept in case the Ubuntu server installation bombed. Other thoughts: running Nano and Vi feels like a trip back to Edlin. Esc and ZZ to save in Vi?? It is and interesting and aggravating process. Certainly is a stark reminder of networking being its own field of expertise in the computer realm.
I did take a look at FreeNAS and have burned an ISO disk, but decided with Ubuntu Server since I already have Ubuntu desktop installed on the disk. It installed painlessly on a logical partition, and was smart enough to write to the boot sector. But NOT smart enough to include a grub entry to include the option to boot into the primary Ubuntu 9.04 desktop partition. I installed SSH and Samba.
ssh works great from my main computer, and I have full access to the server. Interesting to be able to run Ubuntu remotely via a shell. I included an fstab entry on the server to automatically mount the primary 9.04 desktop as a backup partition but it doesn't show up under Network in Nautilus. Also included a Bookmark under Nautilus to automatically connect to the server, which will enable easy copy/paste of files.
The server drive is partitioned as followed:
primary: 30GB Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
logical: 7GB Ubuntu 9.04 Server
I can access the server in Nautilus and copy files to that partition, so I'll likely shrink the primary partition and expand the logical server partition. Or just wipe out the primary Ubuntu desktop partition ... I kept in case the Ubuntu server installation bombed. Other thoughts: running Nano and Vi feels like a trip back to Edlin. Esc and ZZ to save in Vi?? It is and interesting and aggravating process. Certainly is a stark reminder of networking being its own field of expertise in the computer realm.