It's been a long time since I turned my old PC into a home media server, but time has come for that machine and some of its components, so it's time it retired with grace. Fortunately the main issues are around the network card, which stops working every time it…
As part of the file server set up, I've created a Samba share in order to facilitate easily adding files to it form other devices around the house. It's not been plain sailing, and I'm still not convinced my setup is right, but here's the pain steps I went through…
After posting my intention of building a home file server for storing my movies, pictures, music and probably other files, I had to order some new hard drives to give me the space I think I will need. They have now arrived so I get to install those into the…
As you might have seen, I've been building, and setting up my home server, and during that time, I had a lot of issues getting things working. Some were from my own stupidity (like installing the GRUB loader on the wrong hard drive so it wouldn't be read at boot…
This post is the start of a series on setting up a home file server. There’s lots of them out there, but I wanted to document the process I have gone through so that I have a record of it in future, and so that there is an up-to-date…