Questions tagged [home-server]
A home-server is a server, or host, that is based on consumer-only usage and is usually in the architecture of a home network. A home-server will allow clients throughout the home network to connect to and access different data or services. It may also allow external connections.
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Speed of ubuntu samba server is very low
I am using my Laptop as my home Server. I haved installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS version and using Samba for sharing files. My laptop/server is directly connected with router through LAN cable.
My server ...
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Kubernetes Environment Setup on VirtualBox to learn CI/CD Pipeline (DevSecOps)
I am just planning to learn K8s. I am interested in learning about its interconnected technologies, such as the CI/CD pipeline and devsecops. I know all of them are broad topics. But I believe the ...
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SSH refusing connections for a couple minutes after boot
I have a home server I use hobby projects and I frequently use SSH on the machine, however after it (re)boots, any SSH connection attempt is refused for around a couple minutes before I can login ...
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How to setup a VPN tunnel using WireGuard?
How do I setup a VPN tunnel using WireGuard?
I need to securely link my home server with my laptop (both machines running Windows 11).
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mounted drives on raspberry pi os lite bullseye are presently unwritable without superuser privilege
i'm running a headless media server off of a raspberry pi in my home, but i am presently unable to write anything onto it via qbittorrent (using the qbittorrent-nox package to run via webui) after ...
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Cannot connect to home server in multi router setup from outside networks
My friends cannot connect to my home server. It´s port forwarded, but if I test the port connection with YouGetSignal, it tells me that the port is closed. I have a Tp Link powerline network, and the ...
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Setup a public server on my personal computer if port forwarding option is not available on the router
I want to create a portable server with raspberry pi or etc in which I just have to enter the wifi credentials or connect physically to the router and it auto-maps the internal IP and the external IP. ...
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Setting up External Storage for Micro Server
Need advice on a relatively cheap and stable way to set up external drives with an Optiplex micro. I upgraded my old homelab server (i5 with ZFS RAID 1 over SATA) to an Optiplex 5060 micro. Optiplex ...
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Connecting to home server without port forwarding
I would like repurposed an old laptop of mine into a home linux SSH server, to be able to access all my files from my phone over the internet by using Termux to establish the SSH connection.
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Home server with different OS's instead of multiple PC? [closed]
I'm just thinking about that instead of buying powerful notebooks and PC-s for my family members is that possible to create just one powerful PC, with the different OS preinstalled on it, and just ...
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Securing a webapp with nginx, modSecurity and pfsense
As a hobby project, I started a website on my PC. I built it with nginx and everything worked fine.
Now, trying to secure it, things get complicated.
Im trying to setup a firewall/waf physically on ...
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OpenBSD Home Server + Workstation on same machine?
I'd like to learn about secure networking (PKI, x509 certs, DNS, IPS, etc.) and generally harden my home network using OpenBSD. I only have one server with the horsepower (RAM, SSD, processors, etc.) ...
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How to make sure of user's privacy in my app? [closed]
I want to develop an app where I want to give user's at most privacy to their data. I need a database and server to run my app. Are there any instances of AWS/GCP not being trustworthy regarding user ...
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Can't access my public IP outside of the country
Even a month ago everything was working fine, but recently I found out that my Public IP is no longer accessible outside my country. https://fahimscirex.duckdns.org is the link attached to my public ...
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Is it possible to turn my Mac Pro into an FTP server without using any third party FTP clients like Filezilla or VSFTPD?
I want to turn a Mac Pro Tower into an FTP server that exchanges files locally between my MacBooks and Homebrewed PS3 and Xbox 360.
I don’t want to install any third party FTP clients and am wondering ...
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How to access all devices on remote network via VPN?
I am planning to build a home lab.
DESCRIPTION: My goal is to be able to access to my homelab from a remote pc (as my laptop). This is what I have in mind.
In order to secure the access from the ...
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No connection to server from the internet - how to know if the router blocks it?
I don't know much about network-related issues. I am trying to set up a small web server on a Raspberry Pi. I have the latest Raspberry Pi OS and installed Apache on it, and when opening the local IP ...
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Multiple Web Server on Single Public IP
I got an unused server from my office. Set up my server with windows server 2019 with IIS 10 and running Ubuntu 20.04 on VMWare Player 16 and set the network mode to Bridge network.
Say, my windows ...
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Accessing a home server locally and remotely form the same hostname
I have a home server (Ubuntu 20.04) that I use for development, video encoding and other server related tasks that I want to be able to access locally or remotely from the same hostname.
Right now ...
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Self-built home server periodically freezes
A few years back I built a home server which periodically freezes and becomes unresponsive. I am at a complete loss for what could be causing it. I believe it to be a hardware problem, but I don't ...
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Connect to linux outside network without port forwarding
Currently I am running Lubuntu 19.04. Right now I am using samba to share my files on my local network ( anyone connected to my network can access the files )
Is there a way to access my files from ...
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Is it safe to have laptop turned on 24/7?
I have an old HP dv7-7210sp laptop and I want to use it as a server. Is it safe to have it turned on 24/7? The server will be used with Nextcloud to backup my data.
Should I remove the battery from ...
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3 routers, 1 network (or subnet)
I want to have a server that will be accessible in any WiFi network in my home.
I've already set up the server but it's only accessible from 1 subnet.
Here is my configuration:
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How does a cloud NAS manage to be accessed from the outside of a LAN through an app?
I have a cloud NAS within my home network and I can't figure out how it manages to be accessed from the outside through an app. How does the app always know at what address requests should be sent, ...
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Home router difficult to access remotely
I've been trying to debug this problem for a week or two now, and haven't been able to figure out what the issue is/if there's anything I can do to resolve it.
I have a home Xfinity router that's ...
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How do I configure a home “cloud”?
If we simplify the "cloud computing" concept to its most basic form, we could say that:
Cloud computing is nothing more than to be able to run applications and access data from a computer (server) ...
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Network within a network
I will start with giving you a Noob Alert, Sorry we have to learn somewhere.
I just wanted to run an idea past you.
I have setup a home server, this is to host a couple of games for my friends. To ...
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Make vagrant box accessible from other computers on home network
I have a Vagrant box (using Virtual Box) running locally on my laptop. My laptop (the host) is running Mac OS 10.11.6; the guest is running Ubuntu 16.04.
Currently, the guest is accessible from the ...
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How to merge multiples physical network interfaces into a single vlan?
I am currently trying to build a home server. This home server will do a lot of things such as acting as a NAS, a media server, file server, etc, and also a router. This pc has one ethernet port on ...
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Have domain point to homeserver
I would like to point a subdomain of mine toy homeserver, which is accessible through my external ip. I've already added an A record and when I use curl it gives me the correct page. But when I visit ...
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How do I create my own server I can upload things to (like google drive) with Ubuntu server [closed]
How do I create my own server I can upload things to (like google drive) with Ubuntu server
Right now I have a server in my basement with Ubuntu 18.04.1 that is running a program called webmin. it is ...
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Setting up a NAS Drive for Home use
I have just started to do research on this a week ago, before that I didn't even know what a NAS was, so please bear with me.
TL;DR I want to set up shared storage for a family to have all data in ...
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Getting error number -1700 when trying to mount a network drive
I don't use AppleScript often but I wrote a short script to mount a network drive based on whether I am home or away:
set SSID to do shell script "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211....
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Wake on LAN not shown as supported, despite works on windows
I have installed openSUSE Leap as dual boot. I want to have feature Wake on LAN. When I check in windows "Enable wake on magic packet only" and turn off, it works. When I boot to opensuse and turn the ...
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Exposing resources from my home server
I have a small VPS (Ubuntu 16.04) that I use for hosting of a few personal websites, ownCloud, etc. It's fairly slow and doesn't have a lot of storage. I'd like to offload the ownCloud storage and ...
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How do I access my site hosted from home using it's domain name and not the Internal IP address while I'm at home?
I have a site open to the internet hosted from a small raspberry pi at home that uses Amazon's Route 53 to handle all things DNS related. Right now when ever checking on how my pages are looking in a ...
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Creating a private network within a Network
Creating a private network within a Network
Total noob here. [Asking for some Advice and Guidance and How-to]
Read on SU and found it is possible [link below]. Related to Networking.
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So I ...
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Developing a Home Server - Install full-blown Ubuntu on Laptop or Ubuntu Server [closed]
I want to "develop" a Home Server for Web Developement and other network stuff, for that i want reporpuse my old Laptop as Server machine. Now i want to ask if you recommend to install full-blown ...
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Selective file sharing remote and local between multiple computers
I would like to set up some kind of a network that can achieve selective file syncing across a number of devices ie home computer, laptop, tablet and android phone, either over a local network or over ...
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Trouble setting up home network ( isolating home server )
So I have 2 routers, a switch, a few PCs and an old PC to become a home server. Right now, I have 1 of the routers connected to the switch which wires every computers. It's working fine.
This is my ...
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Ways of dealing with dynamic IP
This is my first time setting up a home server so sorry for missing things that might be obvious to you. I have bought a 1€ domain on 1&1 and I would like to have it pointing to my home server. I ...
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Own DynDNS for home server
I have two servers, one dedicated server with a static ip adress and one home server in my flat with a dynamic ip adress, which is renewed every 24 hours.
Currently I'm using the free service from ...
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Syncthing fails to start as ubuntu systemd service
I recently setup a home server running ubuntu 16.04. I installed syncthing on it to sync between my desktop, laptop, and phone.
So I want syncthing to run as a system service, meaning the service ...
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Remotely controlling a computer with no connected screens
I have an old computer which I intend to use as a NFS and torrent server, running regular windows 10. Right now it's connected to a screen, but I'd like to use that screen elsewhere, and anyway a ...
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Is it safe to share your External IP to others?
I have a Minecraft server and I have it set up with no-ip and everything (since I run it on my home computer) and I only share the IP with about a few friends, but only 3-4 people (including friends ...
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What is this power connector? What power supply do I need for it? (S5520UR-E24717)
I was looking around ebay and found some old xeons, and thought I can build an home server with these, so I bought a couple and a dual lga1366 board and I was set. When it arived I inspect the board, ...
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How to set up FreeNAS to use mirrored vdevs?
I'm setting up a home-use FreeNAS - storage of photos, media, laptop backups and so forth for a pair of users and half a dozen laptops, phones, tablets. I have 4x 3TB drives. I'm deciding on the drive/...
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Dual network system for home server rack
I was redirected here for this question from Server Fault.
So I have a big project in mind, as I am developing a large project that requires a lot of memory, hardware, and massive amounts of separate ...
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Can I add peripheral power connectors to server?
I'm hoping to add USB 3.0 to the server blade that I picked up for personal use. However, it has no peripheral connectors (3.5" HDD power connector), only a motherboard connector (used), and some ...
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Is a basement a suitable climate for a running server?
Some server fans can be rather noisy. If I were to relocate a server rack to a basement area, what considerations would I need to take into account?
Are there certain temperatures or humidity ranges ...
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