[ale] home media/file server

[damon at damtek.com (Damon L. Chesser)]

On 09/10/2013 02:29 PM, Sparr wrote:
> I haven't kept up with media streaming technology for the past 5-10 
> years (UPNP is still hot stuff to me), especially proprietary stuff 
> (like how an XBox360 gets media from a Windows desktop on a home 
> network). However, I now find myself in a house full of people who 
> want to share all of our media with each other, and do all of our 
> media acquisition, with a centralized server.
>
> I do not want to spend more than a few days tinkering with 
> configuration files and network daemons and such. Is there a good 
> mostly-Free mostly-free solution to this problem?
>
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Hak5 did a episode segment for owncloud.  Install it on (ubuntu) and you 
have a "personal cloud drop box" and there are at least two android apps 
you can use to access it from droid (one paid, one free). 
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=isv:ownCloud:community&package=owncloud

They made it look drop dead easy.  go to hak5.org or youtube and search 
for that episode (or guess use your $SEARCHENGINEfoo) to see if it is 
for you.



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