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/me has an idea
Hookay, so I'm about to have permenant, always-on internet access meaning I'm going to be spending a lot more time here and have no social life. I also have a little server that I use to store my media and documents on. Combine the two and I get:
Access to my music library over the internet.
This would mean I would be able to listen to my music library from school etc. But of course, me being me I don't have much of an idea about how to do this. So far I've thought about:
- Installing FreeNAS on the server.
- This gives me a general file sever for home and it also includes Apache and PHP storing a web site (No MySQL sadly (Well there is but you can't do much with it)).
- Allow access to my files over the internet so things can be downloaded or streamed from outside.
Of course there are security concerns and copyright issues. I need a way of making sure only I can get to things (passwords etc...). Also, just having links to the stored files is a bit 'clunky'. A proper interface with controlls to start, stop, pause, skip, etc... would be much nicer. Another possibility would be to have a proper application that I take with me (think Portable VLC) and use that to source its music over the internet from the server.
Oh well, just another random idea...
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24/05/2009 06:58 AM |
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RE: /me has an idea
It sounds like a great idea but the thing I hate about these types of things are setting up the firewall, antivirus, etc. and getting attacked.
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24/05/2009 07:32 AM |
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RE: /me has an idea
if you just broadcast from your home PC you have no issues, http://www.orb.com
Throwing the server into the mix is the tricky part.
(This post was last modified: 24/05/2009 10:59 PM by Kuu.)
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I came across a little thing last night called Jinzora. I must say it looks pretty good. Its just a shame that FreeNAS doesn't really support MySQL. Its not needed but its highly recommended. I have had a look at installing proper MySQL and it is apparaently possible but not easy...
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25/05/2009 03:27 AM |
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Install MySQL is easy - just run the installer. I don't see how it cannot support MySQL. If they decided not to include the php-mysql library, just download the DLL (I believe the default PHP package comes with it anyway).
You can just install Apache, PHP & MySQL manually anyway, it's not that difficult (you may have to edit some config files though).
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25/05/2009 04:05 AM |
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DLL? Linux? FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD. What do I not know?
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25/05/2009 04:18 AM |
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PSPkiller Wrote:DLL? Linux? FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD. What do I not know?
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I did only mention one of the terms you stated above...
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25/05/2009 04:22 AM |
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Fuck it. I'll just stick Ubuntu on it and then tailor that to my needs. I'm having problems with mounting disks in FreeNAS anyway... From my limited experience:
Ubuntu just works...
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25/05/2009 04:28 AM |
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To be honest, if you just want to stream music, this is kinda a cumbersome way to do it.
But yeah, Linux > Windows for servers, seriously.
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