[clue] media server/NAS build

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

I'm not sure I want to deal with a mail server either, altho it would be an excuse to learn how to set one up. I was looking for ways to maximize a home server. 

I've found out how to do some of what Amahi and OpenMediaVault do. Minidlna (or mediatomb) can serve up movies, pictures and music. You could use subsonic for music too. 

Dnsmasq is a combined DHCP server/DNS server and is used by DDWRT and probably OpenWRT and Tomato too. Dhclient can tell DNS what its name is, so you can have a network where everything has a name. I'm using dhcpcd but I think I might have found out how it can do the same thing. I plan to test that tonight. 

I wonder if Avahi can name devices too. 

I think I'll probably keep Amahi or OpenMediaVault when I'm done. They look convenient and someone has already done the work of building nice interfaces. 


----- Original Message -----

From: "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us> 
To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 10:36:25 PM 
Subject: Re: [clue] media server/NAS build 

Dennis J Perkins wrote: 
> Add an email server if you want to keep your email private and secure. (The 
> govt seems to think email left on the Internet is not private.) I know a few 
> people in the group are Zimbra fans, but I don't know what it would be like to 
> set up. 

I wonder how secure it is. But I would probably tunnel it anyway. 

I have a TWiki server, which isn't supported on Debian anymore. Occasionally people sign up for 
accounts who I don't know. They usually don't complete the registration so the point seems to be to 
put spam on the user profile page, since no captchas are used. Sometimes people do complete the 
registration but since the password mechanism is broken they can't log in after that. 

But I wouldn't want the general public banging on my mail archive. 

Dave 
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