goodhead Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I run a very small version of our school network at home. I have a cab with patch panel and rack switch. Print server, 2003 small bus server, intranet page. Used to run exchange, Roaming profiles, Group policy. Raid 1 hard disks. Would like to know your setups Am i the only one to have a server at home??
Midget Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I don't have a DC server, just a small network with my mini-itx for NAS, XBox for films/music, 2 computers (one for photography/games and one for work, serving and storage) (used to be more) and a cheap printer server. I decided to simplify it down to this in order to tidy up everything.
edie209 Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Your not the only one 2003R2 server RIS DHCP FILE/PRINT 2000 server Red Hat Server DNS Firewall Content Filtering Intranet (sometimes a website) Media Server MCE PC CCTV Server Print Server XP Clients I use group policies, Roaming profiles, The entire house is networked with Cat5e although I do have a wireless router setup for my PDA. Its sad how we get so involved in our jobs, all the equipment has come 2nd hand along my career. To be honest I have loads of IT equipment I must sort it out and get rid of, things like Amiga 500, Spectrum 128, laser printers, unopened software NT4 workstation, Win95, XP Home etc etc my loft is full, and I must get rid of it soon because I should (fingers crossed) be in Oz in the next 6 - 8 months.
goodhead Posted February 15, 2007 Author Posted February 15, 2007 Your not the only one 2003R2 server RIS DHCP FILE/PRINT 2000 server Red Hat Server DNS Firewall Content Filtering Intranet (sometimes a website) Media Server MCE PC CCTV Server Print Server XP Clients I use group policies, Roaming profiles, The entire house is networked with Cat5e although I do have a wireless router setup for my PDA. Its sad how we get so involved in our jobs, all the equipment has come 2nd hand along my career. To be honest I have loads of IT equipment I must sort it out and get rid of, things like Amiga 500, Spectrum 128, laser printers, unopened software NT4 workstation, Win95, XP Home etc etc my loft is full, and I must get rid of it soon because I should (fingers crossed) be in Oz in the next 6 - 8 months. where do you keep your servers? I've put my cab in the roof and the server in the office. I'd like to have an ISA server for firewall and caching and an FTP server/web server. The thing thats stopping me is the electricty bill that i'd get.
tom_newton Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 1x SmoothWall Advanced Firewall (on a £6 PC with a 50p(!) intel twin-port NIC) 1x Fileserver on a VIA 533Mhz chip, running aged linux distro 1x New fileserver, lacking HDs dual processor P3/500 2 clients - my PC & G/f's laptop.
webman Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Yes, I have some pictures as well 1x FreeNAS file server, 400GB/RAID5 1x CentOS DNS/DHCP/Web/Torrent client/PXE server for GeeXbox About 3 or 4 client PCs, mixed Windows XP and Linux. The servers used to be in the garage but it was too damp so now they're under the stairs (sliding door has slats so helps with ventilation) If the house wasn't rented I'd have done a much better job of the cabling with 4 sockets in each room, but I make do with 2 ports on one run of cable
chrbb Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 What do you use for your server software? I set up a test server using the server 2003 disk from school, used it for a weekend to test something then wiped the disk clean, would love a permanent setup to try things at home first but can't afford the os cost.
Jake Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 All I have is 3 client PCs for gaming running Vista and a server which is for nothing other than hosting games with. My work stops the moment my work day ends, at home I absolutely refuse to spend any time doing work stuff, its all gaming
tom_newton Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Re: location - they're in the cellar in what was a coal cellar. Its remarkably dry, but when I had a 1u dell in there you could hear it through the floor in the kitchen. I sold that to a colleague - his wife now complains she can hear it in the bedroom as his rack is in the attic! Leccy is not *that* bad - as no monitors, and the FS is a VIA. May start running the firewall on Compact Flash to save power too.
Quackers Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I did when i was 16/17 . Now i just have 1 PC at home and my work laptop thats it, i'd rather not come home to a "mini work".
projector1 Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Your not the only one 2003R2 server RIS DHCP FILE/PRINT 2000 server Red Hat Server DNS Firewall Content Filtering Intranet (sometimes a website) Media Server MCE PC CCTV Server Print Server XP Clients I use group policies, Roaming profiles, The entire house is networked with Cat5e although I do have a wireless router setup for my PDA. Its sad how we get so involved in our jobs, all the equipment has come 2nd hand along my career. To be honest I have loads of IT equipment I must sort it out and get rid of, things like Amiga 500, Spectrum 128, laser printers, unopened software NT4 workstation, Win95, XP Home etc etc my loft is full, and I must get rid of it soon because I should (fingers crossed) be in Oz in the next 6 - 8 months. let me know if you are selling the spectrum, i had one many years back and someone broke it, i still have the games and would love to test them out again! also i would be interested in buying the xp home licence for an old p3 pc i have put together!
sidewinder Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I used to have the works and decided like others, its just not worth the hassle at home The last thing you want to do is come home and try to troubleshoot your own AD/DNS/ISA as well as the schools I do have a file server running Server 2003 but its literally just for storage and streaming to my xbox media centre Also have a few network points dotted about my room and a patch panel in the cupbaord but thats purely because I have so many things that need a LAN connection My main home PC is pretty beefy with 3GB RAM so I run virtual server on there and have a small test network if I need to test something out away from work - luckily I dont feel sad enough to use it often
GrumbleDook Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I did have an extensive one ... mainly used as a test bed for my previous place ... but now I just a workgroup to allow my wife and I to share bits and pieces ... I do still do some testing at home but rely on virtualisation for this.
SimpleSi Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 All family members (except the dog) have their own PC and I have another one on a KVM to play with (Currently got W2k3 server on it) Cable t'internet with a wireless router thingy. Got a PDA with wireless but don't use it much as running VNC on it is very flaky and unreliable. Run VMServer on my machine to play with things like Ubunutu/XUbuntu/Karoshi) regards Simon
pete Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Gaming / Image editing box. T23 laptop Mythtv recording & encoding box ITX-based test server. House server - providing 3TB after raid, video storage for mythtv, music through Ampache and mpd, dhcp, dns, apache and home automation. Power-wise it's not too bad - the server is always on and the mythtv box gets powered up by the server when it's got something to record. Otherwise, if I'm not using it it's off. As I also use vmware server, I only need extra machines if there's a legitmate reason why something has to run 24/7 or needs specific hardware. (The gaming box runs vmware and is too noisy to run 24/7)
john Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Used to have a full on NT4 system, then changed to a 2003 one with ISA etc, with a shuttle webserver for web development etc, but i've dismantled it all (mainly as the NT4 was too old - P1 166mhz), the 2003 box got broken for spare parts to fix various machines, but the shuttle is still here and does do some web serving when I need, it also gets used for an SMTP server when my ISP has some issues, which haven't happened in a long time
Andrew_C Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I've cobbled together bits... One cast-off PC as a desktop used by daughter for homework playing on Habbo, a £7 wireless router that I forced the work lappy to talk to, a Roku Soundbridge music player thing (music currently on the desktop). I'm trying to learn Ubunto so as to set-up a Linux server for files and music, on another pile of crud. Maybe one day I'll just buy a proper PC! RATS! Strike through doesn't work here!
PiqueABoo Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I junked the physical boxes and moved to VMs of a dual PIII in 2000. Vista aside that is still up to the job, but it's used by studious other half & 3yr-old tuxpainter so I now have a modestly priced C2Duo, 2GB, mirrored 250GB. Occasionally run two or three from a dozen miscellaneous VMs for investigating geeky things, testing code/script, making MSIs etc. I use hosting for a domain & forum which is probably as cheap as the in-house electricity bills would be, plus I can't hear the fans. The idea of lots of physical boxes in my home seems alien now.. for that matter so does finding a couple of terrabytes of TV I'd actually want to watch.
maniac Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 We have a network, but no servers. There's 4 of us sharing a house, and we each have a PC. One 4 port dell wireless router linking it all together (with a 4 port switch on the landing upstairs so I only had to run one wire up there for the guys upstairs) and telewest cable internet connection. We often play networked games against each other over it, and of course we all have internet access (this was the main reason for doing it!) Just managed to buy a 160GB network drive so we've got some shared storage now as well. I used to have quite an extensive network when I lived with my parents with the servers in my shed at the bottom of the garden (was surprisingly dry) Servers and cabling are still there, but not in use anymore.
sidewinder Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Your not the only one 2003R2 server RIS DHCP FILE/PRINT 2000 server Red Hat Server DNS Firewall Content Filtering Intranet (sometimes a website) Media Server MCE PC CCTV Server Print Server XP Clients I use group policies, Roaming profiles, The entire house is networked with Cat5e although I do have a wireless router setup for my PDA. Its sad how we get so involved in our jobs, all the equipment has come 2nd hand along my career. To be honest I have loads of IT equipment I must sort it out and get rid of, things like Amiga 500, Spectrum 128, laser printers, unopened software NT4 workstation, Win95, XP Home etc etc my loft is full, and I must get rid of it soon because I should (fingers crossed) be in Oz in the next 6 - 8 months. let me know if you are selling the spectrum, i had one many years back and someone broke it, i still have the games and would love to test them out again! also i would be interested in buying the xp home licence for an old p3 pc i have put together! And I'd be interested in the Amiga!
localzuk Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I used to have one, no central server though. But then I moved and now I just use one computer. It is nice not to have to come home to fix problems with my home stuff too.
linuxgirlie Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Yep got two networks here, first one for our PC's so PDC Server(does multimedia as well), Firewall (ipcop) have 2 computers connected to that one, makes it easy changing distro as all our work is on the server!! The second network is a full rig of the karoshi project, so the same as I have at work. This is 5 computers acting as test servers, 3 laptops and our computers host 2 virtual clients or servers in vmware depending what we need. Same as above entire house is wired gigabyte(the only room without is the toilet but that still has a cable going though it..lol), also have wireless but hardly gets used. 2 networked laser printers, one colour one black and white. All in a rack cabinet we got given free...lol. We never need the radiator on in our second bedroom(computer room as we call it) as it is so warm thoughout the year!! Jo
edie209 Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 It seem a few of you are interestested in some of the bits and pieces I have, at the moment a large amount in in my loft packed away the older stuff anyway. So give me a couple weeks and I will get list together and if the the site admin is ok with it I will post it here then if you want something you can let me know, there is quite a bit of brand new gear that never got used too. You see I was freelance for a while and bought stuff then customers changed their minds or whatever, but things like wifi dongles cdr burners all sorts of stuff. One thing I did find last night having a quick look was a graphics tablet which must be A2 but it is serial driven cica 1996. Anyway i will get a list together
ThatBoringBloke Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I've got a MacBook. On it I run Parallels Desktop (Virtualisation Software). Virtually running on my Mac I have 2 x 2003 servers, 1 x XP PC, 1 x Ubuntu PC. I can have them all running simultaneously if I allocate the memory right! Only got 1.25gb of physical RAM Oh, I forgot the Vista VM I have too. All sits nicely on one box, no need for lots of space and messy cables!
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