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Crixalis

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Registered: 2008-10-21

Posts: 3

A complete home netoworking and media server solution

Hello.

Going straight to the point

The Situation:
I have two spare laptops with me.
Pretty much old stuff:
1. Toshiba Satellite A60. Intel P4 3.16Ghz HT , 512 RAM, 40G HDD
2. A Compaq - AMD Turion 64 - 1.5Gb RAM and a 60 Gb HDD.

There is a broadbandinternet connection which I have shared through a switch.

After a particularly long stint with windows, and occasional bouts of linux (mandriva, ubuntu bla bla) I have settled down with Arch for TOSHIBA. Let us say, its the best I have come across. The Compaq is still on XP.

So What I need?

After being like a messy user for months, I thought I would just make my digital life a little for organized. So one good day I got myself a ethernet switch - put all of these in a tiny home network with the following things in mind.

To set up one of the laptops as a Home Server. (Toshiba)

    The server requirements:
    a. A bit torrent downloader.
    b. A normal files downloader.
    c. A library of all my media.
    d. A web server
        - The webserver should allow me to control my downloads and access my files
        - I would also like it to act as my proxy so that i can have a secured ( to be honest to access blocked stuff from office ) internet gateway
        - anything else which you guys think is worth trying it

The other laptop (Compaq) is the one I am gonna.

    a. I use Firefox for browsing. I want the torrent downloads from firefox to be taken up by the bittorrent client of toshiba.
    b. The normal downloads of Firefox to be taken up toshiba.
    c. The downloading activity basically takes place in Toshiba. Files are also saved in the Toshiba
    d. A audio manager - something like amarok would do good i guess. but i want to check out all of them to find out what suits. so please suggest. I am not a Cover art freak.
    e. A media center suite

I guess this is enough for me to set up.

I am requesting everyone out there to give advices , tips, full solutions , part solutions , abuses, anything you want to throw at me to fulfill my wishes.

Cheers

Crix

fukawi2

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Re: A complete home netoworking and media server solution

( to be honest to access blocked stuff from office )

http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/a … ssh-tunnel

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Stunix

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From: Reading, UK

Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 17

Re: A complete home netoworking and media server solution

I have not tried it myself but there is a torrent server (that works on an Apache web server) called torrentflux that might cover the torrent side of your requirements.

see http://www.torrentflux.com/ for more info.

You might also want to look into torrentflux-b4rt (see http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/) as I believe that includes wget for downloading regular files.

I have to admit I never actually got either of these going on my systems because I prefer to simply ssh into my server with rtorrent running and download the torrent file to the watched directory via nfs/samba share.

Hopefully these links might help.

handy

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 719

Re: A complete home netoworking and media server solution

This is also a great a great HowTo use rTorrent like a pro:

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02 … ike-a-pro/

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Execute_Method

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From: Tennessee

Registered: 2008-07-26

Posts: 105

Re: A complete home netoworking and media server solution

I 2nd using rtorrent on the server, you can even set it up as a daemon.

There is a broadbandinternet connection which I have shared through a switch

sounds like you are going to need a router to do everything you want, because you'll have to forward ports (like 80 for the web server) back to the server. If you don't have a static IP from your ISP, you'll also need to setup a dynamic dns acct. @ http://www.dyndns.com so you can always get back home, even in the event your WAN IP changes.

I would also like it to act as my proxy so that i can have a secured ( to be honest to access blocked stuff from office ) internet gateway

+1 to fukawis post

To access files and such on your server from the office(or home), you may want to try what I have done:

On my server I run:
rtorrent (kinda like in handys post)
ssh (manipulate server)
sftp (share files)
vnc over ssh (manipulate server w/ X)
jinzora2 (web based media server)

On teh work laptop I use:
putty
tight vnc viewer (w/ssh tunneling)
firefox w/ fireftp (to access jinzora & sftp)