Happy Ubuntu server...Yatta!

Pleased as punch, that's me.

I've successfully set up an Ubuntu server on an older Dell box.

I've used the fantastic instructions Here (Thanks, Jon Peck!)

I had to create a new share for torrents, because while I could access the share on OS X, no matter how simple I made the share, Windows wouldn't let me in. But creating a new share - with the exact same parameters and permissions - worked. edit - reason why is below

I've also installed squid, and sarg and webalyzer to monitor it.

I've also installed a small second drive and linked it into my home directory as a test. The plan is to buy a larger drive and use my PC's current drive in the server.

Keen.

I've played around with Ubuntu before, but never had much luck getting it to do everything I needed. I've also toyed with SME Server, Clarkconnect, and the impressive Smoothwall.

The learning experience has been great, and made for a quality geek weekend, and the amount of walkthroughs and tutorials on the web are Ubuntu's greatest asset.

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eeun's picture

One important thing I've discovered about creating Samba shares is to not use the directory path as the share name. This may be painfully obvious to some, but Windows gets confused by the slashes and won't allow access to the share.