On Friday 24 September 2010 19:21:26 Greg M. Johnson wrote: > Hi, I have a few questions about webcams, computers, and linux. > > I bought a Linksys Internet Camera that can send images directly to an > email address upon detection of motion. I've got it working fairly well > for sending images to an "extra" gmail account that I have set up. > Problem is that gmail is now balking at my having received so many emails > from a POP account. Given that I have an ubuntu box in the house, is > there any linux opton here? If you tell me these things are doable, I'll > probably be able to figure it out, but often the hard time is figuring out > the capabilities before you start tinkering. > > Can I set up linux to receiveto "emails" on a box on the same wifi > network on the camera?
Yes. I'd simply call that "setting up an email server" or "setting up an MTA" (Mail Transfer Agent). Not sure about Ubuntu, but its parent Debian defaults to installing Exim4 as the local MTA, which can easily be configured to accept email from the same LAN. > If I wanted to use a Samba server option for recording, what should I do in > linux to start that up? Once you install Samba and configure it correctly, it should start automatically at startup on its own via the init scripts. > The camera also came with instructions on how to get a free 90-day static > IP service. Can linux somehow fix that so it's permanent? (May be a > stretch, but thought I'd ask). The above doesn't make a lot of sense. If your ISP gives you a dynamic IP address via DHCP and you've got your webcam hooked up to the same ISP via a router, then what you THINK is a "static IP" really means a *DNS NAME* that is automatically updated from the webcam. There are ways of setting up your own Dynamic DNS *if* you have a static IP and have your own DNS server somewhere. But there's no way for the webcam to truly get it's own "static IP" on its own if your ISP is giving you a dynamic IP. If the instructions you got from the webcam used this exact terminology, they're incorrect. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 6 - Creating Browser Extensions for Firefox and Chrome Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment
