[Request] Home Server Tutorial

[Daletec]

It sounds as though your requirements are not complicated.  Everything you desire is available with GUI tools.

Kodi media center, can also be your media server.

Static IP can be had by using the built-in Network Manager.

Samba for sharing with Windoze.

Your router will govern your WAN connectivity, I use DD-WRT on compatible hardware for the features and built-in VPN server.

Webmin is available for web management.

All are FREE and, yes, Linux is a superior server operating system.

[Scott]

Ubuntu server & desktop documentation. Orginally posted in this thread:
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index.php?topic=457.0

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server guide > https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/index.html
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server guide > https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/index.html

[N4RPS]

Hello!

At the present time, Linux Lite is only available as a desktop version, and I don't see that changing - at least not any time soon. Setting up, configuring, running, and maintaining servers is, for the most part, beyond the vast majority of LL users, just as it is with Windows users.

Those who DO run Ubuntu Linux-based servers do so with Ubuntu Server, using just a command-line interface, or CLI. Since servers, as a rule, don't run desktop environments (like XFCE or Linux Lite), there is, as a rule, even less overhead on servers than on desktop versions.

As for tutorials, a number of them already exist online on how to set up an Ubuntu home server to provide some of the services you inquire about, and probably a few you haven't yet thought of. For the LL development team to provide a tutorial on how to make LL into what it isn't meant to be isn't likely, as doing so would only divert them from their primary objectives. I know that's not what you want to hear, but it IS what it is...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

 

[Departure]

This is a request for a tutorial, I would really like to use linux lite as a home server as it run with very low overhead, I have never ran a home server, but word on the street is linux distro's are perfect for running them. Wanting to know if anyone has setup a home server with linux lite(or ubuntu derivatives) and if they wouldn't mind taking the time to write a tutorial on how one would go about making one with linux lite.

Now because I have never ran a home server I am not sure of all the options available for linux, but the following things would be nice...

* File server
* Torrent down loader
* Streaming media(videos,music streamed to TV and other devices)
* Static IP so you can access files outside of your network VPN?


they are the main functions I can think of, I am sure there is more things you can do with a home server, It would be nice to administrate all this from a web panel or something similar that is simple to use, But still secure.
I personally would be very grateful for a tutorial as I am sure others would be also.