Turning Old Computer Into Server? - Topic

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Sep 13 2012 11:31am

Quote (Richter @ Sep 13 2012 03:00am)

1) you need to be able to find the server over network, as example, can you ping it? or even easier, can you see the website of your server when you use your windows-computer? (it'll depend if you are in the same subnetwork... and on your router configuration (is port forwarding for port 80 enabled? you know the ip from outside? if you want to access your server from outside, you also need to forward the ssh-port to the webserver))
2) you need an ssh deamon on your server
3) you need an ssh client (i recommend putty) on your windows computer

Okay so I have OpenSSH-server on my server and putty on my windows comp. I don't have a domain name for my server can I set this up and access it remotely without a domain name? And I changed the settings on my server to be static IP but I think its DHCP through my ISP so do I need to have DynDNS or not? Thanks for helpin me out guys it's my first server setup as I'm sure you can tell.

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Sep 20 2012 08:40am

Quote (Lords. @ Sep 5 2012 01:38am)

So I am thinking about loading windows server2008 or a Linux distro onto my old computer. I am trying to go into networking/security and think it would be good experience to play around with. I am just not exactly sure on what I could do with it or if it's worth it and figured someone would know. Btw I'm at a wedding real bored so on my phone if this looks shitty lol.

Don't know what to do with your home server? I have about 11 at home. Here are some services I run:

SSH/SFTP/SOCKS PROXY/protocol Tunneler (ssh does all this)
Kerberos SSO for all my other SSH servers
Internal DNS server
Convergence Notary
SMTP Server
Mysql Databases
Apache2
Netowork Monitor
Doom2 server/ minecraft other games...
SAMBA file server
Etc...
Set up some intrusion detection system like tripwire and snort on the box facing the web. Skip ubuntu and go straght to Debian.

This post was edited by Qwuazar on Sep 20 2012 08:41am

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Sep 21 2012 07:14am

Quote (Lords. @ 13 Sep 2012 18:31)

i installed dd-wrt on my linksys router. now i'm able to configure it to send his new ip to freedns.afraid.org as soon as he gets a new one. you need something similar.

you need to set the ip of your server inside your lan to static. on your router you need to forward the incomming request on the ssh-port to this static ip.

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