What I do is install steam on both, but just make a symlink to my windows steamapps folder, so the game files are shared.
Need some help with IPtables; Setting up a rule that takes a list of IPs and allows only these IPs to access a port.
Would it be possible to set up one linux install as both my web server and small game server (alternating between the two not running both at once), or would I have to make two partitions and two installs?.
Also what distro should I use? Computer is Pentium 4 2.4ghz 512mb 333mhz DDR ram.
[editline]15th January 2011[/editline]
Also could one of you linux savvy people guide me, a complete linux novice, to turn my spare computer into a web hosting server with remote console access and remote file uploading?
Pm me and we can do it over skype (prefferably) or steam chat or MSN or whatever.
512mb of ram might make a game server a bit iffy depending on what game you're hosting. Also keep in mind that residential internet usually has ridiculously low upload speeds, so a game server from home functions far less effectively than one would hope.
I've got about 2Mb/s up so for my purpose it will do fine. Also the 512mb ram will do fine for my needs for now, if/when I need more I'll just shell out for a bit more, DDR ram isn't that expensive if you buy second hand.
[editline]15th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=chipset;27420056]
Also could one of you linux savvy people guide me, a complete linux novice, to turn my spare computer into a web hosting server with remote console access and remote file uploading?
Pm me and we can do it over skype (prefferably) or steam chat or MSN or whatever.[/QUOTE]
This though, really if someone could help me it would be swell.
I believe the Arch wiki has setup guides for all of that. It's a really good distro to learn how linux works and to get used to it (I should know, I only started using linux yesterday)
Installing Arch: [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginner%27s_Guide"]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginner%27s_Guide[/URL]
Installing Apache/php/mySQL (LAMP): [URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apache[/URL]
Installing OpenSSH (remote console): [URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH#Installing_OpenSSH[/URL]
Installing FTP Server: [URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Very_Secure_FTP_Daemon[/URL]
I haven't used OpenSSH or an FTP server software, but I have XAMPP (one package with apache, php and mysql) running locally with that guide but if you're going to make the web public I'd steer away from XAMPP as it comes very unsecure.
You'll also need to forward ports but that's done mostly on your router, so I don't know about documentation.
[QUOTE=rieda1589;27406907]What I do is install steam on both, but just make a symlink to my windows steamapps folder, so the game files are shared.[/QUOTE]
I did this for a while, but I found it's better to have a separate install. I crash far less than I ever did now, then when I did when I symlinked to my mounted Windows partition.
Is there anything special I need to do to move my /home to another partition? Can I just create the new partition and set the mountpoint in fstab and possibly just copy over all the files. Or is there anything else I need to consider?
I'd like to share my /home between a Gentoo and Fedora install.
I don't think there's anything else you need to do. There might be some conflicts between certain configs depending on how gentoo or fedora like to be special in their own ways.
You might want to empty the old /homes first since there might be some issues with mounting a partition in a directory that already has shit in it.
For the longest time I refused to have a proper /home partition, insisting instead to have an NTFS filesystem that I mounted to /mnt/doc. That way I could use it on Windows AND Linux, because both support ntfs.
Now however I never ever use Windows anyway so I migrated.
Having some problems with WLAN using NetworkManager on Arch (GNOME), I go to connect then wait like 30 seconds and get asked for my key over and over again. daemon.log complains about association taking too long. Ideas? The AP is definitely fine (my iPhone's talking to it right now)
I hate all network things except WICD. Its the only one that has always worked for me.
[QUOTE=leach139;27434329]Having some problems with WLAN using NetworkManager on Arch (GNOME), I go to connect then wait like 30 seconds and get asked for my key over and over again. daemon.log complains about association taking too long. Ideas? The AP is definitely fine (my iPhone's talking to it right now)[/QUOTE]
My networkmanager keeps trying to connect when the network is actually down. It also keeps asking me for username and password.
But that only happens when the network is actually shit for everyone (which it is at my school sometimes)
I hate networkmanager. It connects but keeps disconnecting every 30 seconds.
I just use netcfg.
Lol just had it at my macdonalds. Went to the lobby and now it works :buddy:.
(Waiting to be brought home :v:)
[editline]16th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=rieda1589;27453972]I hate networkmanager. It connects but keeps disconnecting every 30 seconds.
I just use netcfg.[/QUOTE]
Does netcfg have an applet like networkmanager does?
[QUOTE=FPtje;27455574]Lol just had it at my macdonalds. Went to the lobby and now it works :buddy:.
(Waiting to be brought home :v:)
[editline]16th January 2011[/editline]
Does netcfg have an applet like networkmanager does?[/QUOTE]
Nope :(
It's also a pain in the ass if you need to switch networks.
WICD is the best. It works on it's own (doesn't depend on half of KDE or half of GNOME). The applet works very well. It's also generally very fast.
[QUOTE=Boris-B;27457315]WICD is the best. It works on it's own (doesn't depend on half of KDE or half of GNOME). The applet works very well. It's also generally very fast.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand how a different program can be faster in connecting to a network. How does that work?
Edit: WICD is so advanced. Thanks!!!
My server currently has a single 1TB HDD in it with one EXT3 partition running Debian Lenny (no LVM). However, due to me making backups to it, it's getting rather full. If I added extra drives to the machine, what would be the easiest way of expanding out into that space, short of nuking the first drive (I don't wanna have to pull all my shit off of it)?
[QUOTE=FPtje;27460470]I don't understand how a different program can be faster in connecting to a network. How does that work?[/QUOTE]
It's called being lightweight
[QUOTE=leach139;27460558]
It's called being lightweight[/QUOTE]
"Lightweight" won't turn a connection time from 10-20 seconds to almost instantly.
Hey fellows.
I was wondering how I can permanently mount my main harddrive to a folder on my desktop.
I run Arch.
Basically this is how it's set up.
I have a 640GB drive with Windows 7 on it, this is my main drive.
I have an 80GB drive with Arch on it.
What I want to do is have a folder on my ~/Desktop directly linked to my C:\ drive.
I've done it a few times now but the link is gone when I reboot.
How can I make this permanent?
[QUOTE=Nekrietns;27465322]Hey fellows.
I was wondering how I can permanently mount my main harddrive to a folder on my desktop.
I run Arch.
Basically this is how it's set up.
I have a 640GB drive with Windows 7 on it, this is my main drive.
I have an 80GB drive with Arch on it.
What I want to do is have a folder on my ~/Desktop directly linked to my C:\ drive.
I've done it a few times now but the link is gone when I reboot.
How can I make this permanent?[/QUOTE]
Open up /etc/fstab as root and put in a line like this:
[code]
/dev/sdb1 /home/user/Desktop/windows ntfs-3g noatime 0 0
[/code]
You may need to change /dev/sdb1 to whatever your drive is, and change the mount point to whatever you want.
Hey, that answers my question too! Thanks! I just set up Arch and used the hal daemon but I wasn't sure if it was going to automount my partitions.
What's a good music player? I was using foobar2000 on Windows, but I think I can get by without it.
Rhythmbox
i use rhythmbox in gnome or sonata/ncmpcpp if i go with mpd
Alright, thanks for the advice. I've been using VLC at the moment, but that's not really much of a music player.
[QUOTE=FPtje;27463903]"Lightweight" won't turn a connection time from 10-20 seconds to almost instantly.[/QUOTE]
Besides wicd and wicd-client takes up about 10-15Mb more RAM than networkmanager and nm-applet.
[QUOTE=FPtje;27474510]Besides wicd and wicd-client takes up about 10-15Mb more RAM than networkmanager and nm-applet.[/QUOTE]
Isn't that just because all the GNOME/KDE services and shared GUI resources are already being used by the desktop environment? I'm assuming NetworkManager uses stuff like GConf. WICD is a lot more standalone.
[QUOTE=Nipa;27469756]What's a good music player? I was using foobar2000 on Windows, but I think I can get by without it.[/QUOTE]
I use Clementine.
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