• Linux server for window and Mac
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Someone is going to give me a computer perfect for running a home server. I wanted to load all my music, pictures and videos on to it. With my primary computer I am running windows and my wife is running Lion, I would really like to be able to set up the server, so both computers can share the music and videos. Is there an easy guide or can this be done easily. Also at some point I would probably set it up as a mail server, because we are moving and I hate changing email addresses.
use freenas, if you want a server to share files, across different operating systems. [url]http://www.freenas.org/[/url]
You can use Samba to get "remote drives" in Windows and OS X.
Get Samba for the file sharing, and I don't recommend using your own mail servers. If it's not set up perfectly it can be exploited.
Samba is definitely the way to go for files.
Centos minimal Server install send.mail for email, Set up CIFS for net shares, BIND/DNS, Nginx (or LAMP for intranet/internet), IPtables for routing if needed, squid as web cache proxy, openVPN for remote, Snort if you need it for Network Sec
Maybe not quite as well-integrated as Samba, but a pretty easy way to do so is with a simple FTP server. There are FTP clients for every operating system. That's what I use for my home LAN.
FreeNAS.
wow you just bumped a thread with an answer, that has been clearly already been given.
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