Comments on: Build Your Own Server

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:31:14 +0000

This is a nice and simple layout of something that can be intimidating to many. However, I do agree with Dan Dart that installing a distro meant for a desktop with a GUI is pointless, especially for a headless server. I’ve used Debian (which Ubuntu is based on) which has the GUI or NO GUI options.

Otherwise, I like your approach here, very straightforward.

By: JohnSmith

JohnSmith — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:33:06 +0000

Wow..!Gr8.
nice information…I never found such info before…

By: anDREW

anDREW — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:10:45 +0000

I’m having a problem with step 5. Once I replace the contents of proftpd.conf and try to restart the server, I get the following error:

– Fatal: unknown configuration directive ‘DisplayFirstChdir’ on line 22 of ‘/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf’

How can I fix this?

By: geoff

geoff — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:09:33 +0000

Can’t figure out an error on proftpd restart, “Fatal: unknown configuration directive “DisplayFirstChdlr” on line 23. I’ve tried commenting it out & deleting it, and the same error reappears on restart. What am I doing wrong here?

By: Dan Dart

Dan Dart — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:23:36 +0000

Why not Ubuntu Server or Debian? It’s foolish to install a desktop oriented distro on a server.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:18:29 +0000

I agree with Dude, FreeNX rocks.

By: HeLLFiRe

HeLLFiRe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:13:40 +0000

Or just use Ubuntu *SERVER* Edition! Why have a GUI if you are only going to ssh into a command prompt. Save the resources for other things!

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:15:55 +0000

I thought I could share my experience to answer some of the questions posed here.

1. I set this up using Ubuntu so yes … other distros work … at least w/ Ubuntu versions.

2. I modded the copy paste for like this:

— added the * for the missing arguement as per old file this replaces.
#Deny|All
TransferRate RETR 50

—- Added to finish file w/ clse as per old (original) again.

That fixes glycolized’s problem w/ proftpd.conf

Moe … your IP address can be found by going to the home page of your router (or at least mine does … I’ve only really played with mine) but prob same. I have 2 XP machines, Vista box and PIII running Ubuntu and all IPs are listed. I used port 22 as is — just type in ip.

Lastly, remember step to mod samba.conf w/ your info … I didn’t first time around and had to do so. Cool though because I did it from terminal from Vista machine. Again … checkout the original samba.conf file for what to enter (unless u named workgroup diff than WORKGROUP — Obviously).

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:58:31 +0000

Sweet … learned lots, thanks.

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:22:43 +0000

Can this be used to make a team fortress 2 server?