Build your own server

Hello, I am very new to linux. I'm having a problem getting to the file "cd/etc/samba"
It keeps responding with. "No such file or directory" I have reinstalled sambe 3 times now, not sure what I am doing wrong. Sure its gonna be something stupid. Thanks

Originally Posted by 748Snowman
Sure its gonna be something stupid.

Affraid it is ;)

cd /etc/samba

cd = command
/etc/samba = argument

They are separated by a space ;)

omg.... Hand to forehead..

Thanks so much, great write up!!!
Thanks again for the quick response

Hello,
I am new to this forum and this howto seems to be what the doctor ordered for a current project I am working on. I have two questions. Will this guide work on Ubuntu (Hardy 8.0.4) and can this setup work as a dedicated server for my own webstie if I put it online? To answer questions about the second part of my question I have plans of starting my own hosting or backup storage company. Also others may ask why with all of the hosting companies out there, the answer is simple, I like the idea of having more control over my server resources.

this may not be on topic, but some of you may notice Glider has left.

perhaps we should all pause and think on why such a pillar of the bit-tech community, a contributor no less, decided to leave for other parts of the net.

maybe it will change the way some of you interact on here, maybe it won't, but it still deserves to be noted.

Originally Posted by cyberwarrior
Hello,
Will this guide work on Ubuntu (Hardy 8.0.4) and can this setup work as a dedicated server for my own webstie if I put it online?

Yes and Yes

I just added another hard drive to my server now im getting an error "malloc:cannot allocate memory"
Any help on this on?

Did Glider really leave? Nuuuuuu!!!
I hope this is not true.

Just out of curiosity, how do you get those backticks?
Is it the ones on the Tild key?
btw that code fixed it perfectly too.

Bar182 you can change your password for root by using the

nano config.php

It is mentioned on page "7 - A flood of data"
Also on the same page there is (I think) an error in your code

So issue cd shared, mkdir torrent and chown 777 torrent.

isn't it meant to be chmod not chown?
Still loving this experience. Great learning curve. Thanks Glider

Originally Posted by Teh_Messiah
Just out of curiosity, how do you get those backticks?
Is it the ones on the Tild key?

AZERTY keyboard over here, so not sure ;)

So issue cd shared, mkdir torrent and chown 777 torrent.

Originally Posted by Teh_Messiah
isn't it meant to be chmod not chown?

Yep, I should kick DaDego and make him fix it ;)

I cant find xvncserver at synaptic...
Any tip?

perhaps i can download it manually from a google link or something like i often do with windows?

Originally Posted by Mattasp
I cant find xvncserver at synaptic...
Any tip?

perhaps i can download it manually from a google link or something like i often do with windows?

This may help.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122402

chmod: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/share/x11vnc' : no such file or directory

Sorry ! but iI keep getting this reply to the ' sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/share x11vnc" statement

Is X11vnc installed?

Thanks for your prompt reply Glider:


Yes I have installed x11vnc. My current setup is that I am applying the tutorial to Xubuntu 8.04 in hopes of setting up a server for my small home network. I want to be able to access it from my laptop during the day while I'm at college. The frustrating thing is that I dearly want to learn and be comfortable with linux and not be totally dependent on Windows.

my home network is : two self-built desktops each running Xp Pro; Compaq V6110us laptop dual-boot with Xp Pro/ Vista Business ; an old Dell inspiron (I would like to make into a hardware firewall/router that would come later) and the Xubuntu file server. I also plan to setup another server to hold a small family web-site for family photos and also act as a bulletin board .

I get the feeling it isn't on, can you post the output of

dpkg -l |grep vnc

Here is the output I got. My server's name is "michele".

ack@michelle:~$ dpkg -l |grep vnc
ii libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 0.3.4-0ubuntu2 A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (runtime libraries)
ii libvncserver0 0.9.3.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1 API to write one's own vnc server
ii tightvncserver 1.2.9-22 virtual network computing server software
ii x11vnc 0.9.3.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1 VNC server to allow remote access to an existing X session
jack@michelle:~$

Sorry text editor chopped the first post, here goes:

jack@michelle:~$ dpkg -l |grep vnc
ii libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 0.3.4-0ubuntu2 A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (runtime libraries)
ii libvncserver0 0.9.3.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1 API to write one's own vnc server
ii tightvncserver 1.2.9-22 virtual network computing server software
ii x11vnc 0.9.3.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1 VNC server to allow remote access to an existing X session
jack@michelle:~$

It is indeed installed, does it work when you type 'x11vnc'? Maybe the userrights are fixed in the new release.

I have since got it working (sorta) and have moved on to installing Putty and UltraVnc. Everything went swimmingly with Putty but for some reason Ultravnc viewer cannot connect to the server. I keep getting a: " the plug-in cannot be loaded. etc" message.

Amazing this is still alive but deservedly so. At this point I have replicated the first two of these tutorials for (and with) 7 different friends and built the router box for two people besides myself. Of all the tutorials I have come across over the years this is certainly one of the most complete and most useful. Essentially I have been able to apply it to Ubuntu 7.1 - 8.1 and even tweaked my way around with a fedora box using the basics outlined here. Really hope there will be more things like this in the future. Thanks again Glider.

Mail your suggestions to Tim or another staff member ;)

Hmm, how to say this in a politically correct manner ... I believe the success and value of these tutorials lies in the way they were written and laid out and all due to the author. I don't remember how I stumbled across the first article but became a reader of this site due to it and the follow ups. I hope Glider, that you will continue to write this type of thing, you are obviously very good at it and have helped a lot of people. If you do write other things, I hope I can find them ... I read somewhere you were leaving the site and if it is true that is really a loss for bit-tech.

Hi there, nice guide, i am getting an error when i try to connect to my server using Ultra VNC Viewer. It keeps saying Connection failed - error reading protocol version, possible causes: - you've forgotten to select a DSMPlugin and the server uses a DSMPlugin. it shows me this error after i type in the password even though i have use DSMPlugin checked.

Hi there, nice guide, i am getting an error when i try to connect to my server using Ultra VNC Viewer. It keeps saying Connection failed - error reading protocol version, possible causes: - you've forgotten to select a DSMPlugin and the server uses a DSMPlugin. it shows me this error after i type in the password even though i have use DSMPlugin checked.