I wanted a reliable home media server and so far the process to get this up and running has been very fun and rewarding. This is where I store my movies, tv shows and music. I’m a big fan of XBMC and I wanted to set up sharing the xbmc database through mysql to all my clients. I also wanted to be able to stream my music to multiple clients. Initially I used daap but I have since moved on to SubSonic. ...
I keep forgetting how to do this one… so I wrote it down. Updating TimeZone: Remove current timezone (delete symbolic link): rm /var/db/timezone/localtime Create Symbolic link for Jamaica TimeZone ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Jamaica /var/db/timezone/localtime
Subsonic to the world!! After a little searching I found a SubSonic AddOn that works with XBMC Frodo. I am running the nightly builds for Windows and ATV2. As per this forum post: I find XBMC to be the best experience on a Mac or PC for interacting with my remote Subsonic server. I wanted to try it with the pre-Alpha builds of XBMC Frodo to take advantage of the new audio engine. The Subsonic script failed and the guy who wrote it (t0mm0) seems to have disappeared. I debugged and corrected it (very easy) and for those of you who are interested here’s a link to the new files: ...
My quick and dirty walk through of how to get utorrent installed and configured on Openmediavault, a Debian based network attached storage solution (NAS). I used this package. wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24928836/utserver/deb/utorrent-server_3.0-25053_i386.deb dpkg -i utorrent*.deb point your browser to: http://omv-ip:8080/gui The default is: 8080 The user name is admin with no password. Additionally you will have to add utserver to the machice startup: update-rc.d utserver defaults Reference utorrent.com forums
This was harder to accomplish that I thought it would be. I am accustomed to doing this by changing the runlevel in /etc/init.d/inittab. With upstart this has become very foggy for me. Thanks to this Link, I was able to get this done. Step1:Just edit /etc/default/grub with your favourite editor: sudo gedit /etc/default/grub find out this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” change it to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash text” Step2: Update grub and done! ...
The machine on 192.168.1.153 is my server running Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS. I installed the tftp-hpa package: aptitude install tftpd-hpa Now the files were in place so I needed to tell inetd.conf to find the files in that folder, so edited /etc/inetd.conf. Source
Configure DD WRT The following settings needs to be a dded under: Services->Additional DNSMasq Options Code: dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,,192.168.230.1 Configure tftp In this case we are using tftp-hpa Code: apt-get install tftpd-hpa mcedit /etc/default/tftpd-hpa TFTP_USERNAME="tftp" TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp" TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69" TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure" References Source
The way to follow Eventually replace the 10.0.0.x by your addresses Go to Administration -> Diagnostics and click on run Enter ifconfig vlan1:1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0<br></br> and click on Save Startup Enter /usr/sbin/iptables -I POSTROUTING -t nat -o vlan1 -d 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE<br></br> and click on Save Firewall Source
Debugging PPPoE Problems PPPoE is used mainly for handling connections via Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL). Remember: The WRT54G / WRT54GS doesn’t have an integrated DSL modem, so you need an external one. Cabling After connecting the WRT54G(S) router to the DSL modem on the port labeled Internet make sure that the Internet LED at the front panel is lit. If not, check cabling. Reboot your DSL modem after you connected the router to it. ...
From the time I installed my first wireless router I have been wondering if there was a way to have the wireless router manage the public IP address. I wanted the ADSL modem to function as a modem only. I have seen this setup on a few occasions when a static IP address is configure but I never had a clear understanding of the process. My wireless router has all these wonderful features and yet I would have to let my router function as an access point. The other option was to connect the router to the WAN port on the Router, from the ADSL modem. I then would connect my computers to the LAN ports on the router. I hate the latter setup as I would have to double NAT and this prevented me from connecting to a VPN at work. Also I had to spend too much time setting up port forwards for BIT TORRENT on both devices. ...