1. Clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
   1. Set for automatic install of security updates
   2. Services enabled:
      1. DNS
      2. OpenSSH
      3. Samba

1. Set the local network to static IP address
   1. Modify the /etc/network/interfaces file with a static entry:

      # The primary network interface
      auto eth0
      iface eth0 inet static
              address x.x.x.x
              netmask 255.255.255.0
              network x.x.x.x
              broadcast x.x.x.255
              gateway x.x.x.1
              # dns-* options are implemented by the resolv.conf package, if installed
              dns-nameservers x.x.x.1
              dns-search lattice.net

2. Restart the network:

   sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

The moment of truth. How hard would it be to configure a raidz array out of the five 2TB drives? Um, two lines!? These instructions came from here

1. Install the zfs code:

   sudo apt-get install zfs-fuse

2. Turn our hard drives into a raid array:

   sudo zpool create media -m /storage raidz /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf

Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP as shown here

NOTE: According to the comments on that page, you could do all of these with this: (but I'm not that lazy, I can copy and paste a few lines)

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

sudo aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client

sudo aptitude install apache2

1. Install php5

   sudo aptitude install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

2. Restart the apache server

   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

NOTE: I could not get this to work, the content always came up with some kind of error. uShare worked right out of the box with no fusing, so I'm going to use that for the UPnP server.

Will use NFS to share up the storage directory.

1. Grab the NFS server package

   sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap

2. Configure portmap

   sudo dpkg-reconfigure portmap

3. And restart (this did not work btw)

   sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart

4. Modify our exports

   sudo nano /etc/exports
   # here are some example entries
   # hal
   /storage/video                 10.0.0.5(ro,fsid=7,no_root_squash,async,subtree_check)
   # nmt
   /storage/video                 10.0.0.13(ro,fsid=7,no_root_squash,async,subtree_check)

5. Restart the NFS server

   sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart

1. Stole the /etc/samba/smbd.conf from Mythbuntu and made it read only.

uShare is a media server uPnP media server (very light weight)

1. Install the service

   sudo apt-get install ushare

2. I manually edited this file first, there were some options that don't come up when you do the “config”

   sudo vi /etc/ushare.conf

3. Proper configuration is done with this

   sudo dpkg-reconfigure ushare

sudo apt-get install jed