Does anybody know of a good, clear, concise HOW TO aimed at numpties like me on setting up a basic file server with Debian? I'm happy running a stand alone Linux box and don't mind a bit of tinkering but, I have never set up a server. So, all I want is to be able to both store and retrieve various files on my new installed Debian server box. It is currently networked with DHCP but I expect that really needs to be changed to a static internal IP (I'll probably use something like 192.168.100.0) though, I don't know how to do that as yet. Files will be stuff text documents of various formats, music files and possibly video files at some future date. So, any good HOW TO's out there?

Oh by the way... that is what I'd do in Debian Etch! Don't know what distro you're running... would probably work in Debian Sarge/Lenny too as well as numerous Ubuntu's Sincerely... Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) Cyorxamp's Personal Website http://www.cyorxamp.info Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: > Heres a simple way... > > (presumably for a share which will work with other linux/windows/mac boxes) > > apt-get install samba > > wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.400_all.deb > > dpkg -i webmin_1.400_all.deb > > apt-get install -f > > Browse to https://localhost:10000 > > Log in as your linux root account > > Goto Servers on the left and Samba > > From there you can configure Samba shares :D > > Sincerely... > > Steven Maddox > (Cyorxamp) > > Cyorxamp's Personal Website > http://www.cyorxamp.info > > Kevanf1 wrote: >> Does anybody know of a good, clear, concise HOW TO aimed at numpties >> like me on setting up a basic file server with Debian? I'm happy >> running a stand alone Linux box and don't mind a bit of tinkering but, >> I have never set up a server. So, all I want is to be able to both >> store and retrieve various files on my new installed Debian server >> box. It is currently networked with DHCP but I expect that really >> needs to be changed to a static internal IP (I'll probably use >> something like 192.168.100.0) though, I don't know how to do that as >> yet. Files will be stuff text documents of various formats, music >> files and possibly video files at some future date. >> >> So, any good HOW TO's out there? >> > _______________________________________________ > Staffslug mailing list > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

192.168.100.0 is a network ID for a Class C network of 192.168.x.x.

You can't assign your server that address (or any machine for that matter).

OK...Where i've written 192.168.x.x what i suppose i shoudl have written would have been 192.168.x.y where x is your chosen third octet (which would not be the same in every network hence the wildcard element) and y are the host bits. So no. What i meant was a class C network.

<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html> With regards to your /21 subnetted network. This fellow has suggested that he's going to use 192.168.100.0 for his server IP Address....i doubt he has knowledge of subnetting hence why i simplified down to just /24 networks. I could have gone all out and started asking how many hosts he requires and gone into VLSM but I didn't think that appropriate. Would you??

Also RE: 192.168 being a valid class B network, ok yes point made and taken but, private address ranges as dictated by IANA in RFC 1918 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html><http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc... suggest that you should not be using 192.168.whatever networks as class b private ranges but instad 172.16. networks. So if i was talking about a class B private network i wouldn't be using 192.168.x.y would i??

Currently my router takes 192.168.0.1 then there are about 4 or 5 different PC's that are assigned a random address via DHCP from the router. Hence me plucking a highish number out of the air. Could I use something like 192.168.0.10 instead?

Bloody hell I love this LUG :-) Thank you Joe, I shall do that.

Like the other guys the advice I'd offer is try and use a high number that is unlikely to be given out by the DHCP. Because I tried using 192.168.1.2 (all IPs are 192.168.1.X on my network) and it ended up messing the entire network up, as the other computers on the network were insistant that DHCP give them 192.168.1.2 (I suspect the router remember their MAC address from before going static and auto-assigned the last IP it gave it). I in the end had to use 192.168.1.10, and as theres only 6 computers .10 will never be given out by DHCP.

Heres a simple way... (presumably for a share which will work with other linux/windows/mac boxes) apt-get install samba wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.400_all.deb dpkg -i webmin_1.400_all.deb apt-get install -f Browse to https://localhost:10000 Log in as your linux root account Goto Servers on the left and Samba From there you can configure Samba shares :D Sincerely... Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp)