Ubuntu Servers :: Getting Alternative To WHS/media Server
Jan 3, 2011
I currently have a server running Windows Home Server and was wanting to know if Ubuntu Server could do the following requirements I currently enjoy
1. Media Streaming, to multiple devices simultaniously i.e. pc/xbob360/PS3 all at the same time. Possibly re-encoding OTF.
2. Remote Access, not just to the server but linking(so i can rdp to my main rig through the server from any internet location) to other systems on the "Home" Network both Linux and Windows.
3. Drive Pooling with redundancy, I want to be able to add and remove HDD and just have it expand the pool so current folders can just grow, but also have it duplicate or make redundant copies so if a HDD fails it can still be recovered.
4. Backup of machines on the network, either manual or scheduled, of both Linux and Windows machines
5. App sharing would be a plus but not required, so I could run a Linux app from the server seamlessly on my windows pc.
6. Basic file storage and browsable structure from windows machines.
I realise this may be a tall order and I don't expect it to be easy or straight forward in any way, but I really hate WHS, it has the slowest file access speed of any os i have ever seen, and is so buggy its unbelievable.
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Dec 31, 2010
Distro: Fedora 12
Package Mgr: Yum
Version: ushare 1.1a
Other: automatically running as daemon in runlevel (3)
Devices: Xbox 360 & Playstation 3
Note: I can access all of my linux server media via my game consoles. I am curious to know who else is utilizing "ushare" or similar software? Does anyone recommend something other than ushare? Anything better than "ushare?" Just curious
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Tasks: 95 total, 1 running, 94 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2075584k total, 1944612k used, 130972k free, 30472k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1364788k cached
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