Home Server Distro with File server, UPnP sharing, SMB sharing, Streaming, TiVo?

[riffin-rich]

Can anyone help? We're looking for something that has the capabilities of Windows Home Server, specifically for use at home: File server, UPnP file sharing, SMB file sharing, WebDev file sharing, Media streaming, possibly TiVo backup / sharing, PC backup server, etc. We're more or less looking for another distribution (vs. a Fedora app, but I'd consider this too if you know of any). We looked at Openfiler (.org) but it's more of a small business level application. As Phil wrote, I'm sure if you have a domain server somewhere on your network this would work great, but the security is WAY too much for home use. We need something for home use. The write-up and directions are great. The software just leaves a lot to be desired for home use ... and their site even warns to this effect.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...meserver/defau
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[hellork]

Any modern linux should be able to do the job. I prefer a distro with a liveCD installer, fast repo mirrors and a decent package manager to get up and running faster. In this regard, Fedora is fine. Just install to hard drive, download only the packages you need through Applications->Add Remove Software and you're up and running with minimal configuration, especially if you use a gui tool, such as webmin, to do your setup.

Sure, I could compile everything from scratch and do all my tweaking by manually editing configuration files in vim if I wanted to but after the first 500 installs that gets old.

[sideways]

The file sharing and samba is routine in fedora, for a upnp server see http://ushare.geexbox.org, and you can use vlc as a media server - google "how to stream almost anything using vlc".

In fedora you install vlc from livna, eg for F8

su -
rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/fedora-release-8.rpm
yum install vlc

[A.Serbinski]

For media streaming/sharing, take a look at MythTV --- its a complete replacement for TiVo, or could interact with an existing TiVo (ie DTiVo).

[drunkahol]

And if you're looking at MythTV (which I would do as well), take a look at MythDora. It's a ready-to-go MythTV "distro" built around Fedora. Getting slightly out of date at the moment, but they're gearing up for a big release with the next MythTV release.

Cheers

Duncan