Home Server

[Tungsten.Chromium]

My family will be retiring an old dimension 3000 in a week or two and I figured it wouldn't be a bad little home server to throw up in the attic.  Right now all I can think of using it for is streaming movies to our TV and hosting teamspeak server.  Since I've never setup a server before I'm thinking of just going with windows home server and fucking around with it from there.  Can someone please post some good tutorial links or give me a crash course in this?

[Arnox]

This guide seems pretty helpful:

http://lifehacker.com/turn-an-old-computer-into-a-do-anything-home-server-wit-510023147

[Tungsten.Chromium]

Thanks for the link, I read through it and it looks pretty good.  The IT guy at work said its a good program to use and to look into windows media center too.  Do you ever use that for streaming to your TV or anything.  Most of the video streaming options I'm seeing use DLNA and always have poor quality.

[Riv3r]

http://xbmc.org/ is what I've used for quite some time

[RustyShackleford]

Thanks for the link, I read through it and it looks pretty good.  The IT guy at work said its a good program to use and to look into windows media center too.  Do you ever use that for streaming to your TV or anything.  Most of the video streaming options I'm seeing use DLNA and always have poor quality.

Fuck windows media center. Use freenas or linux.

[ThaTermeneter]

wont the temperatures in the attic kill that thing

[aldra]

Thanks for the link, I read through it and it looks pretty good.  The IT guy at work said its a good program to use and to look into windows media center too.  Do you ever use that for streaming to your TV or anything.  Most of the video streaming options I'm seeing use DLNA and always have poor quality.

Fuck windows media center. Use freenas or linux.

yeah, for a media server OpenElec is a good choice, Plex is popular too but it requires two servers.

what exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you want to learn about Windows, you can set it up as a domain controller and go from there, but for anything else I'd personally install lunix or bsd, set up ssh and configure it that way.

[Bobapanbeers]

I bought a Buffalo NAS I download junk off piratebay and watch direct on a smart tv (samsung).

[Tungsten.Chromium]

Thanks for the link, I read through it and it looks pretty good.  The IT guy at work said its a good program to use and to look into windows media center too.  Do you ever use that for streaming to your TV or anything.  Most of the video streaming options I'm seeing use DLNA and always have poor quality.

Fuck windows media center. Use freenas or linux.

yeah, for a media server OpenElec is a good choice, Plex is popular too but it requires two servers.

what exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you want to learn about Windows, you can set it up as a domain controller and go from there, but for anything else I'd personally install lunix or bsd, set up ssh and configure it that way.

Really just trying to setup a data storage center that can stream to the different TV's and laptops in the house for now, but the computer we were retiring seems like its just a little too old (even for a server).  something about maxing out at 512MB of RAM just doesn't do it anymore.  I appreciate all the links and help though.  Maybe when I have an extra couple dollars laying around I'll throw one together.