Re: Home Server

2012-11-22 Thread Michel Le Cocq
Le 21/11/2012 18:23, Matthew Seaman a écrit : On 21/11/2012 17:02, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: In fact, if you're going to use ZFS at all, I'd suggest using it for all your filesystems on that machine. I've a personnal systeme quite similar with 6 drive. 2 - for systeme : mirror : with

Home Server

2012-11-21 Thread Nicholas MIller
Hi all, I am looking to re purpose an old system for use as a home server. My intentions for the server are as follows: Central backup of other systems. Storage for Media files(movies/music) Occasionally transcoding DVDs/blurays As well as being able to access the backed up files(at least part

Re: Home Server

2012-11-21 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:12 -0600 Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.com wrote: My question(s) regard storage. Depending on which case I end up using or if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard drive bays. The only things I really *need* redundancy for would

Re: Home Server

2012-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/11/2012 17:02, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:12 -0600 Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.com wrote: My question(s) regard storage. Depending on which case I end up using or if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard drive bays. The

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-06 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 05 May 2012 10:21:10 -0500 Joshua Isom articulated: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 5, 2012 10:21:10 AM -0500, Joshua Isom is alleged to have said: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot

Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-05 Thread Joshua Isom
I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've never set up outgoing mail which makes

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/05/2012 16:21, Joshua Isom wrote: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my gmail account. I've

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-05 Thread Erik Nørgaard
On 05/05/2012 17:21, Joshua Isom wrote: Before I deal with setting postfix to relay the mail, dealing with firewalls and other possible issues, is there a better alternative? postfix will do the job, it just works, local mail will continue to just work. There are alternatives like qmail and

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 05 May 2012 10:21:10 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: I currently use my FreeBSD system as my generic unix server and some coding, along with occasional multimedia. I'd installed postfix years ago and kept using it. Right now, I use getmail with cron, dspam, and dovecot to handle my

Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Drew Jenkins
20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address, since that calls up my

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Drew Jenkins írta: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address,

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Holden
Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address,

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread John Cruz
Open the command prompt in windows first, then run ipconfig. Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address *

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Drew Jenkins
Start menu/Run cmd There you will get a win32 console where you can type in ipconfig /all Miscommunication. I *did* that. It pops up the info I need on the screen so fast then the screen disappears...I never have a chance to read the info!! What do?? Also, I found this info on a Web page

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Drew Jenkins
- Original Message From: Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:45:47 AM Subject: Re: Building Home Server You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running it, that way

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Drew Jenkins wrote: Start menu/Run cmd Did you run cmd.exe? Really? Probably your interface uses DHCP. Yes, DHCP is enabled. You should type in /sbin/sysinstall and then configure your network interface. Yes, that is what I will do, but first I need the above

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Drew Jenkins
- Original Message From: Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:08:13 PM Subject: Re: Building Home Server Did you run cmd.exe? Really? This is really strange. If I go to run and then enter

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running it, that way it won't close after it exits. Yeah, I thought of that, unfortunately I get the response that id doesn't recognize the command! Yet run does recognize the command! Go figure! It must be Win98

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Drew Jenkins
!-- DIV {margin:0px;}--- Original Message From: Robert C Wittig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:11:38 PM Subject: Re: Building Home Server Is this a Windows box or a BSD box, that you are trying to run a server on? Both: a hard

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Ziad Badawi
regarding the ip config, you could type: ipconfig /all | more or ipconfig /all out.txt In the second way you'll find the configuration in out.txt On 2/16/07, Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running it, that way it

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Drew Jenkins
- Original Message From: Ziad Badawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:42:53 PM Subject: Re: Building Home Server regarding the ip config, you could type: ipconfig /all | more or ipconfig /all

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance?

2004-04-25 Thread Markie
- Original Message - From: Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:27 AM Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance? | On Friday 23 April 2004 09:04, you wrote: | | [snip] | | I just now

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance?

2004-04-23 Thread Markie
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Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard diskornetworkperformance?

2004-04-23 Thread Markie
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Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or network performance?

2004-04-22 Thread Markie
Hello everyone! I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after having a few problems with modems and random hard lockups(?). Well, first off the upgrade didn't solve this and I can still reliably make the box freeze with a new modem I bought which I hoped would cure the problem

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or networkperformance?

2004-04-22 Thread Markie
- Original Message - From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:53 PM Subject: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk or networkperformance? | Hello everyone! | | I just upgraded my home server frmo 4.9-R-p3 to 5.2.1-R after

Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance?

2004-04-22 Thread Markie
- Original Message - From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:14 PM Subject: Re: Home server upgrade 4.9 - 5.2.1, drop in hard disk ornetworkperformance? | | - Original Message - | From: Markie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL

Moving my home server to completely different hardware

2002-11-10 Thread Eelke Blok
Hi all, I'm running a home server, which acts as an IP-forwarding machine for my home network, does some webserving, mail, etc. It's currently based on a Pentium 120, but I plan to move it to an AMD Athlon.About the only thing that will remain the same is the hard drive and the two NICs