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I’ve recently built a new computer and decided to use my old one as a file server for our house. We have a variety of devices and I was wondering what a good suggestion for a server would be?

The computers we have are:

2x Windows XP home
1x Windows XP Pro
1x Windows Vista Home
3x GNU/Linux
I also have a ps3

The server itself will be running opensuse 11 since i use that myself and know how to configure it easily. These are the file servers i’m thinking of:

ftp with a http interface for downloads
pros – Works on all client systems with no setup
cons – It’s a bugger to set-up server side and keep also ftp can be quite slow.

nfs
pros – Fast, secure, easy for the Linux boxes to setup but i can’t find a decent free windows client.

Samba (windows file-sharing) –
pros – um… no software to install on the windows systems
cons – with 4 different operating systems it is very temperamental impossible to set up on linux and be ale to see and access all the other computers.

None of the above are perfect worst comes to worst i can use ftp but I’d rather have a system which:

Both windows and linux can access without too much hassle.
Fast file transfer.
I can setup and leave running for months at a time without needing to configure or check.

Cheers in advance.

Mike.

I installed OpenSuse on a pentium 4 of mine, the computer can’t seem to get out of my LAN network, at least on http. I can open up Firefox and go to my router/switch’s web-based control panel, and go to my modems web based control panel, but it cannot seem to get outside my LAN. All windows computers I have running at my house can get the the web just fine. I have tried other Linux machines before, and none of them can browse the web. I run a Fedora Core 4 web server from my house, and it can be accessed from anywhere, but it’s web browser cannot get to any website outside of my LAN either. I guess the problem could be with my modem, if anyone has any ideas please help. Thanks.
Wow! Thanks svancouw. I messed with some DNS settings and I got it to work. Thanks a lot.

The 2007-2008 NBA Champs, Boston Celtics, visited the White House on Friday afternoon, September 19, 2008. President Bush and team captain Paul Pierce addressed the media in the East Room. If you just want to hear Paul Pierce, skip to the 9:04 mark. And if you want to hear President Bush say the word “Ubuntu,” go to 7:06. Hopefully the Celtics will be back again this time next year to visit the White House and Barack Obama. Yup.

The website is whateverlife.com, I can’t view it at all. On any computer in the house. My friends online can see it just fine.

I get this message
Apache 2 Test Page
powered by CentOS

I can also view it using a proxy. What’s up?

Oh btw, I’m in Canada.
Friends I asked were online, they live in Michigan and california

I’m just getting my feet wet with PC gaming and I’m looking to build a gaming server with some spare parts lying around the house… AMD 1700+, 512mb ram, 40 gig hard drive, high speed cable connection. I would prefer to use a linux OS(suse or ubuntu) so I woundn’t have to pay for windows. I’m not looking to build anything superior, just something to run dedicated servers for Half Life, Counter Strike, and Halo(not all at the same time). Is this possible with this hardware? If not, what would I need? Thanks, Jim

My “budget” rig:
AMD Athlon XP 2800 Barton @ 2.17
Asrock K7S41GX mobo
512 ddr 400
40 gb maxtor
Gigabyte GeForce 6200 128mb
Aspire X-Qpack w/430 psu
Acer 8ms 19″ widescreen LCD

P.S. Any additional gaming tips would be much appreciated : )