Thanks! That kind of use for picture sharing also sounds really cool, and it saves a lot of work as well. How does she go about transfering the files from iOS to the server or is it all copied after it's been synced with a PC? That must be a very different experience having the server as a desktop t...

Hello all! It's been a long while since I've posted here, but I've been visiting the main site occasionally when I needed to check some server-related info. (Seriously, Ian, this site is amazing!) Last year, I built a server, which was pretty fun and I learned a lot. (Those interested, previous topi...

Thanks for the help, Ian! I hadn't had a chance to try this stuff out until just now. The edit to the HDD temperature script works like a charm. :D So all of my temperature monitoring stuff is up and running. I tried deleting the revaliases file, but the email still goes the wrong address. The XXXXX...

If you can point a Windows machine at the shared files, Ember Media Manager is an awesome piece of metadata software. It's very flexible. The original developer stopped working on it, but it got picked up as an open source project afterward, here , so just ignore all the topics you see about it bein...

I'm liking the look of rsync and Delta copy, I'll take a look at them this weekend if I'm able to piece together enough time. Can you do remote imaging with Macrium? I see that the free version doesn't support incremental backups, so the filesize must be massive unless you're wiping old images once ...

No worries, I'm glad I was able to fix it here. It's difficult enough to program stuff when you can test it, let alone when it's for another machine. My server's out in the open for now, I haven't decided where to put it yet long term. It seems to be running a bit hot if it's at 34 when it's not rea...

Awesome! Thanks that works really well, I haven't been getting any more errors via email, and it's reporting properly because there's a warning log file in my home folder now lol. Its warning temperature is 35 and the CPU appears to be sitting at 36. There's a single quote missing from the second la...

Greetings again! I noticed on the homepage of Ian's guide, one of the things the media server should do is: "It must be powerful enough to support multiple, simultaneous, High-Definition video streams. Not only that, but it must be able to do this whilst doing other things too, such as backing ...

Heh, GigaByte must strap a lot of sensors onto their boards. I've got a single processor with 2 cores. (The AMD Athlon II X2 245e.) To be honest, I'm not completely sure what that PCI device is. I didn't put anything into the PCI slots when I built the machine, so it must have come built in. Either ...

I believe, and someone should fact-check me on this because I'm not very experienced with Linux file permissions, but you should be able to do this: sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /media Put in your sudo password if prompted, and then your username should be the owner and you can change eve...