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...

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.

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...

DLL? Linux? FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD. What do I not know?

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...