Greetings, all.
Anybody have any thoughts on a Home Server? I sent this email last week but didn't get any responses. :(
Eagle
Greetings, all.
Before I drop some money on a Mac mini, I wanted to use a spare G3 for a "proof of concept" server. Here's my situation:
- I'm behind a corporate VPN box that has a DMZ interface, but also has the ability to open up Internet access two ways: port forwarding (destination computer still has VPN access to HQ) or "all ports" (destination computer does not have VPN access to HQ; this differs from the DMZ in that the computer is on my subnet, not on a special DMZ subnet)
- I want to use this box to replace my Linux server (accessible via SSH, SMTP, and HTTP)
- I would like an iPhoto server and an iTunes server to my other Macs
- I would like to eventually use it as an iTunes server to feed an Airport Express box that will eventually be connected to my amplifier
So, OK, how to best do this? I'm thinking the "all ports" option on the VPN box because I want to be able to use iTunes & iPhoto sharing, and while I like Rendezvous Beacon I'm not interested in needing it for daily use. Having the box on the DMZ would require Rendezvous Beacon, and forwarding individual ports would give the box access to HQ. No good.
But with my music only on the server (which will eventually be located in a closet) how would I load music onto my 20GB gen 2 & 1GB shuffle iPods? How would I download pictures from my camera in to the machine? I haven't been able to answer those questions yet.
The machines that would be accessing this server are a PowerBook and an iMac, both running Panther & iLife 04. The PowerBook belongs to my employer, so I have minimal personal stuff on there (no iPhotos or iTunes) and it's all on my iMac. For the iMac, I'm finding that my wife does not have access to our photos or music (because they are all in my account), so I thought it might work best to locate those on a server so we can both get to all of it anytime.
I've done Google searches and the closest thing I have found is this site from O'Reilly:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/04/homemade_dot_mac.html
but that doesn't cover most things I want.
Thanks for your time and ideas.
Eagle
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