Got a linux fileserver up and running and totally rearranged my living room… now the giant green couch is next to the sliding door again, and there are two tables in a separate area with computers on them.
WOW it feels great having everything neat and getting a good work area set up. (my bedroom is still a complete mess, but I’m taking things one step at a time)
After installing Ubuntu Server edition on the old parts that were donated/lying around, I had some trouble with samba shares. I could map the share from vista but file transfer speeds were only 40kb/s! I tried several things on both client/server sides but in the end I decided to just use SFTP with OpenSSH. It’s transferring at 3 MB/s, not great but good enough for the amount of data that I currently need cleared off my hard drives.
Feels great finally offloading the files that were cluttering up my main system! I’ll keep them archived for whenever I actually need them.