Jackd Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 I have 1. Windows 2003 Server Enterprise (DC,DHCP,DNS,Web,Storage) 2. Media PC (TV,DVD,FreeView,Sky,VHS) 3. A few clients for the domain. And suprisingly i use group policys its great to watch people scream at you because you've put a restriction on bittorent or limewire etc....
Butuz Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 Wow you guys must spend an awful lot on all of this software! Andrew
Midget Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 Wow you guys must spend an awful lot on all of this software! Andrew shhaaduuuuuup [/lenny] ...
CyberNerd Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 lol. It's free: http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/
webman Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 Wow you guys must spend an awful lot on all of this software! Not a penny - open source through-out
Joedetic Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 Even if i did want to migrate back off Ubuntu Server i get FREE legal copies of server 2k3 from MSDNAA. My university registers all the students in the FCET (http://www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk) .... which is nice
Guest richard Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Just reassembling my setup at the moment as I have just moved into a house share with some friends. 1) Windows XP Pro box, which I was going to sell but have now decided to keep. 2) Windows XP Pro laptop which is going to get rebuild at somepoint probably with some Linux distro instead of Windows. 3) First generation Mac Mini which tend to use the most for all my home bits and pieces as I'm not a big gamer.
Tuxguy Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 I used to run a RedHat based network (mixed Linux/Windows clients), but the server motherboard went pop, so I've taken the opportunity to reduce energy usage (it was a regular PC box on 24/7) by buying a Slug (a Linksys NSLU2). It's a quiet, small, cheap, linux box serving out data to the home network. Soon I'll be making it unslung and making it my home web server, and anything else that takes my fancy. I think it's cool! Not a hyper machine, but it suits the home well. NSLU2 Linux Cost? Hardware £50 plus HDD(s), software £0 Fun? 100% Downside? No big box to show off and we have to use the central heating...
webman Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 I'm looking at moving to Mini ITX for my servers to cut down on power as well. The only thing about NSLU2 is that I wouldn't trust a NAS with a single disk - but otherwise it is a great embedded device.
Midget Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 I used to run a RedHat based network (mixed Linux/Windows clients), but the server motherboard went pop, so I've taken the opportunity to reduce energy usage (it was a regular PC box on 24/7) by buying a Slug (a Linksys NSLU2). It's a quiet, small, cheap, linux box serving out data to the home network. Soon I'll be making it unslung and making it my home web server, and anything else that takes my fancy. I think it's cool! Not a hyper machine, but it suits the home well. NSLU2 Linux Cost? Hardware £50 plus HDD(s), software £0 Fun? 100% Downside? No big box to show off and we have to use the central heating... Bloody Hell, that's brilliant. I'll have to look into it, shame it'd make my mini-itx redundant. I assume its a fully useable debian install so i would be able to run bittorrent?
webman Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 it'd make my mini-itx redundant. Which board/how much?
pete Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 Hi - I'm thinking of doing a MythTV server/frontend set up - how do you find it? Is it doable without in depth Linux skills? I was looking at the KnoppMyth stuff which looked good. Cheers Sorry missed this. If you're using Knoppmyth on i386 hardware, yes. Quite a few people have success with MythDora as well: http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/mythdora/install/howto.html If you get those working with your hardware, you can then decide whether you want to faff around a bit more to add other shiny things. Once you get it set up as you want, back it up before you tweak. The PVR Hardware database is worth reading for details of other peoples setups http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-view_articles.php. Geexbox http://geexbox.org/en/index.html and minimyth http://www.linpvr.org/ are useful for creating diskless front-ends. Mine runs on Ubuntu, stores stuff on another server and uses diskless clients as the "viewing" frontends. It was a pain to get going, but once set up I haven't had any problems. I wouldn't recommend trying to get all of that working without trying a simpler setup first.
Tuxguy Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 I assume its a fully useable debian install so i would be able to run bittorrent?A quick search says it's done ok with OpenSlug. There are a few different versions of Linux to choose from to make it what you want. I prefer the KISS approach, but admire those who make the slug do tricks you wouldn't believe!
Tuxguy Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 The only thing about NSLU2 is that I wouldn't trust a NAS with a single disk - but otherwise it is a great embedded device.It'll run at least 2 HDD and more is apparently possible, with backup between them as an option if you're paranoid about HDD failure (and we all should be!). 8)
Midget Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 what's the throughput like on them? I can't image blistering speed from a usb hub
Tuxguy Posted February 28, 2007 Posted February 28, 2007 No, not blistering, but fine for a home network. Of course, if you're home is gigabit wired and all your PCs are moving Gb of data around it's not going to hack it, but as a general purpose box it fits the bill! Here's a website running on a slug: Byte Red - these things are great value for money and as simple or as complex as you want - great developer community, too! That's more than enough evangelising from me for now
webman Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 I've assembled some screenshots of Windows Home Server Beta 2 if anyone's interested.
dancingdruid Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 I've got an NSLU2 as well. At the moment it is (only) functioning as : net storage ssh server (great for tunnelling) mt-daapd server for streaming to itunes (all over house or down SSH tunnel) web server with php and perl mysql server dyndns updating script The only catch is when something goes wrong and you have no keyboard or screen. I've also got one at school running a small website with our RBC pointing an external ip address at it. Well worth a punt.
sidewinder Posted May 12, 2007 Posted May 12, 2007 Finally had to put something together at home for testing, or Im never going to get a chance to finally retake my 70-291 or try anything new Bigger sacrifice for me than most as I still live at home and only have my bedroom! This cupboard was previously the home of my stereo Suppose it makes me fairly sad and it isnt really going to impress any visitors but it has to be done for a while Heres the setup http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/gregh7901/IMG_1075Large.jpg Got an old Intel switch and set it up with 2 VLANS, 1 "internal", 1 "external" PC on the top is acting as an ISA server. 2 DC's are the only other servers Ive got which are running on this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/gregh7901/IMG_1078Large.jpg under my bed. Has 3Gb RAM so Im going to try to run most stuff virtually so this lot doesnt cause the electricity bill to rocket Also, heres the main switches for my room and my media server. Most of the cables are just connected to points. Only a few PC's connected, rest are stuff like access points, games consoles (love my XBMC) and a print server http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/gregh7901/IMG_1074Large.jpg Most of the points are behind the bed http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/gregh7901/IMG_1073Large.jpg And finally my desk is fairly clutter free (just a bit messy). When I come homeall I want to do on my laptop is listen to music and surf, so the less crap around the better http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/gregh7901/IMG_1077Large.jpg
srochford Posted May 14, 2007 Posted May 14, 2007 I don't want to spoil your fun, but might it be easier to do this with virtual servers? Both VMWare and Microsoft have free products which make life much easier and give you more space in your bedroom to do bedroom type things :-)
sidewinder Posted May 14, 2007 Posted May 14, 2007 I am doing it all virtually, apart from the ISA server. Can probably get around 6 servers virtualised on the machine under the bed Still need the switch to connect it all up and the monitor to well, monitor it
srochford Posted May 15, 2007 Posted May 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. You can download 120 day eval version of MS Server software from their web site - that should give you a good amount of time to play :-) The other thing to look at is MSDN membership - it basically gives you all the "business" MS software so that you can learn it etc. I think the cheapest way to buy it is the MSDN Academic Alliance (about £500 per year but it allows you to use as many copies of all the servers etc for training purposes)
wil0 Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 i havent really got a network just got a pc running 64bit ubuntu linux, its a 3200 64bit athlon, 1gb ddr400 ram, x800 gfx card 200gb hdd, 120gb hdd drive, all full. im running a "server" its a P3 700mhz, 384mb of ram, X2 60GB IBM hard drives (80% capacity) its a ubuntu lamp server running bit tornado with torrent flux infront of it, Amule service (connect to that via remote front end) SSH, openvpn and samba. 1mb ADSL line, because i live so far away form the exchange from pipex, extremely slow Bit torrent/amule speeds all day less than 20k (with encryption!), picks up around 2am to 8am. If i had some money id probably have some hench setup but alas i dont, im going traveling next week then to uni, so untill the second year il just have a standard pc, and maybe a nice shiny new 13" macbook im thinking of making some kind of crazy server for uni as il be in halls and its in the center of london. based on a mini itx board with about 4 108mps wireless cards, 250gb sata drive, 500gb sata drive, Slackware distro connected to some "cantennas" to crack into networks to leech bandwidth while im in halls. hopefully il get about 20mps constant
dancingdruid Posted May 17, 2007 Posted May 17, 2007 For the last poster http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/uk_war_driver_fined/
FN-GM Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 (edited) 2 x Windows Server 2003 Servers, DC, VPN, DHCP, File Server Asterisk Server 24 Port Cisco Catalyst 2900 Switch I got my windows licences from a skip (I'm full of class lol) ant i took them home. Installed Windows Server 2003 with a CD i got from a mate. And at my friends who is a small ISP I have a Linux Web server what I do my hosting on and some for friends. Edited July 5, 2008 by FN-Greatermanchester
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