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NAS
Setting up mt-daapd/firefly
mt-daapd, aka firefly, allows to serve a music folder directly to any iTunes running in your home network. This is great to share music across the house or to keep a music dump folder aside from your main itunes library.
Setting up Avahi
Avahi advertises the shares made available by netatalk to macs in your home network via bonjour, so that connecting to the file server means just clicking on its icon. This is how to set it up.
Setting up netatalk
How to install and configure netatalk to serve files from ubuntu server to macs in your home network.
Enabling ssh access
ssh enables remote terminal access to a linux box, and is the first step towards an headless machine. This is how to configure it for the first time in ubuntu
ATOM/ION nas home server
Build and configure a cheap NAS/HTPC box based around the new Intel Atom processor and Nvidia ION chipset. Low power consumption, your files everywhere, torrenting, automated backups, reproduction of 1080p video, all for under 400$: how could you do without?
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