Networking :: Dsl As a HOME SERVER??



Hi all!!

first of all.... DSl rocks! anyways..

My question is

Is it possible to set up DSl as a Home file and web server??

i mean it is smaller than other linux 'es out there i assume.

So it should be great as a server.

IF yes could some 1 plz tell me how to??.. ???

thx in advance

DC

Did you check out the Monkey http daemon that comes with DSL ?

Some forums searches on Monkey might end up with some results to your liking.

thx for the reply green

I got one more question

:p

Can you use monkey as an File Server as well??

prob. a noobie quest. o well

Basically i want a file server and a webserver on a

400MHZ P2
128Mb

I want DSl to run on it and i want the files, internet for 2 Win Xp machines.

I guess apache will be great for this... However just in case you guys have an better option i would like to know.

Thanks in advance

Dc

Don't sell the monkey web server that comes with DSL short. Give it a try before you go with apache.  

You can use BetaFTP to do some file sharing but you may want to look into adding Samba from myDSL. Samba is very good for sharing files with Windows boxes.

While you're at it make it an mp3 server with the EDNA module from myDSL.  With a little tinkering you could modify the EDNA music server script to also be a document server (.txt, .doc, .pdf type files).  

I've used similar equipment and it worked. It's all a matter of how fast is fast enough.  For home use it should be fine.

Search the forums and you'll find lots of current examples. A while back I wrote up some blogs on how to install EDNA and Samba (on older versions of DSL). If you can't find anything by searching the forum take a look at my posts in the Blog/Talk section.

Good luck... Let us know how it turns out.

Quote (newOldUser @ Jan. 12 2006,05:46)
While you're at it make it an mp3 server with the EDNA module from myDSL.  With a little tinkering you could modify the EDNA music server script to also be a document server (.txt, .doc, .pdf type files).  

What an interesting idea! I had never thought about using Edna for docs and such. I'll have to play with that. I liked Edna for mp3's except it didn't have any search features. Maybe I need to check the project page and see of they've updated.

Thanks for the tip!

Chris

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