Creating a Home Media Streaming Center with Ubuntu

Let's face it. Discs are a thing of the past, and external hard drives are bulky and inconvenient. With this guide, I will show you how to create a Home Media Center, capable of streaming movies and music straight to you PC. The best thing is, this is free, or cheap, project!

Step 1 Gathering the Supplies

What we will need

• An unused PC
• Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition
• A DVD-R(optional)
• Media

You can replace the DVD with a USB flash drive, but for this guide i will be using the DVD

Comments

[bhochman]

I think u can find the smb.txt here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1232464
the content is

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = YOUR_HOSTNAME
server string =
workgroup = YOUR_WORKGROUP
announce version = 5.0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

passdb backend = tdbsam
security = user
null passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
name resolve order = hosts wins bcast

wins support = yes

printing = CUPS
printcap name = CUPS

syslog = 1
syslog only = yes

;[homes]
;valid users = %S
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0755
;browseable = no
;read only = no
;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/

;[netlogon]
;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
;admin users = Administrator
;valid users = %U
;read only = no

;[Profiles]
;path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
;valid users = %U
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0700
;writeable = yes
;browseable = no

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
write list = root
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775

[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
browseable = no

;[DVD-ROM Drive]
;path = /media/cdrom
;browseable = yes
;read only = yes
;guest ok = yes

[MyFiles]
path = /media/samba/
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = YOUR_USERNAME
force group = YOUR_USERGROUP

[hoddy]

hi your link for smb.txt seems to be broken any chance of a new one
Thanks!

[LAS]

Site http://rubbervir.us is up for sale so no SMB.TXT file!

Anyone have a copy?

Please post the content here ...

[Lithium Rain]

This is a neat instructable - with better pictures and perhaps a guide (or at least a link to a guide) for setting up a firewall, it would be feature-worthy!

[sumanta1999]

could you please change ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 as support of 9.04 is over .By the procedures are same.

[hintss]

each is supported for 1.5 years. LTS versions have 3 years. it is supported, even now with me typing this on UNR 10.04

[cornboy3]

I'm confused.. Why don't you just use ubuntu server? And for the web server, instead of installing each one separately why don't you just use XAMPP?

[Cybot Rules]

i think it was designed for people who arnt comfortable using the console only, plus this way u can use it as a computer as well. If you want to just use the server version, you can do all the console commands on the local pc, using sudo. i think, its been a while since i set up my server.

[mdkelsh]

I don't know about you, but I usually customize my own code which explains the separate installation of each, so that I can configure each separately. And Ubuntu server is less user-friendly, no GUI can intimidate people.

[cornboy3]

I understand that but your instructable only lists console commands :P

[stuuf]

And you can still use that machine as a desktop PC if your streaming operations aren't using all of its resources... Linux isn't *just* for servers shoved in a closet somewhere.

[mdkelsh]

That's true I have ubuntu on my main, but this server I built I do have shoved in a server somewhere.

[cornboy3]

I have Linux Mint on my laptop and ssh into my Ubuntu Server inside a vm. Doesn't need to be in a closet :P