Comments on Creating A Home Media & File Server With Ubuntu

If this guide proves sufficient, I will add a couple more things to it at least... 

 Right now I have incorporated PS3 Media Server with Logitech Revue recognition and Handbrake GUI for video conversion.

 As it stands now:  this really makes a great media server, worthy VPN gateway to get around corporate or school DNS blocking, and a wonderful remote desktop environment for data processing.

do you support web access to the server? more specifically, can user login using web browser and run picture slide shows or upload his picture, etc? thanks.

Hiya

 Another product I find that just works is Serviio. PS3Mediaserver, I found struggles.

HTH

Does the Xbox 360 support streaming from this set up?

I do not own an XBox but PS3MediaServer and Mediatomb both supposedly work with it.  I'm running both concurrently at this time.

One suggestion I would have as I'm going through the guide which so far is excellent. On step 4 though I'd find it helpful if you walked through the process much like you did in earlier steps. e.g. how to go about forwarding external WAN port 3389 to LAN IP addy?

I just wanted to thank you for putting together this HOWTO. It was wonderful and now I have a great media server to run on my home network. Thanks 5 Stars!!!

You state to load Ubuntu but do not mention which version, Desktop or Server.  It would be nice to make mention to that in the How-To.

You can actually tell what kind of ubuntu he is using (desktop or server) becuase on server you cannot use "gedit" because that command brings up a gui, which ubuntu server doesnt have. Hope that helps everyone!

have you ever tried apt-get install ubuntu-desktop on a ubuntu-server

Well, even if he is running ubuntu desktop on his server, he is still running the GUI version.

Wondering which approach would be good for home media server. Buy the NAS or build it? Which one is good among these NAS servers?

http://www.thecosmosphere.com/how-to-create-your-own-home-media-server/

Here's my new media setup:  I took a windows server that was pretty nice, but I no longer needed, installed Plex on it, then mapped a directory off of my Synology Diskstation.

So, that gives me Plex, which shows up right on my Roku and Amazon fire and phone and any web interface.  Very very nicely.  The synology, may seem totally unnecessary, BUT, it is fan-tastic with bittorrent.  Basically, if I want to see a movie or show, I just look it up on my phone, click the torrent I want and the synology starts loading it.  Plex is scanning for changes, so.... after a few minutes, it appears on my Roku.  Since the server is pretty big  (it's got 1gig of memory with nothing but Plex running on it), the transcoding is practically instant.

I tried running transmission from it.... there's very little remote capability that's professional.  all in all, I'd say that the ideal media server would probably be a decent Mac.  (which I used to have)  linked to the Synology.Here's what I'd recommend to people:  Go get an old mac with a few gig of memory off ebay or craigslist.  Get a 112 or 111 synology used.  Get an old Roku (or just use a tablet).  Install Plex on the Mac, install Download Station on the Synology.  Map the ports.  The only coding you may have to do is to set up the mac to map the drive to the diskstation.  If you've got a crappy windows workstation you want to recycle..... don't.  Go mow a few lawns and get that mac.  Seriously.  You'll spend a TON of time screwing around with Linux if you don't know it already, and once you get it to work, when it breaks (and everything breaks) a year later, you'll have to learn it all over again.

Great tutorial, very helpful.  Thank you my friend!

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SSH don't work anymore on Ubuntu 11.10

Thanks for this. I was able to do this with a few slight changes, main one was replacing MediaTomb with Gerbera (built on MediaTomb)

So just how ***OLD*** is this article? There's no date anywhere, and even the comments don't have dates. The only clue to it's age is someone's comment that something no longer works with Ubuntu 11.10. That means *AFTER* the article was written, someone was trying it on an Ubuntu install in late 2011. It is now late 2020 (for anyone reading this comment in 2030, and wondering just how stale the information is).

The article mentions in the first chapter that it is written for Ubuntu 11.10.

Thank you for the howto. I'll see if I can build it on 220.04 LTS