MrRalphMan Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Well, My Windows 2003 server has just decided to lunch itself. Hopefully just the OS, but it's a right royal pain. Currently when I boot I get the following error - 'server 2003 error dll for kernel'. Now I might be able to get this up and running again, but if not does anyone have a suggestion for it's replacement. The Host is a HP DL530 with 1.5GB of Ram. I want to run the following on it, at the very least. uTorrent (With File Share to drop files to start) Windows Shares (Samba on Linux) Basic Web Server with user authentication. So I can store some useful files on my site, but have them protected. The box seems to be running well, with a 6 month clean out for dust she does ok. If I can get the OS up and working again, that'll be good. But if I cannot then I don't mind going down a Linux route. Looked at Amahi as a home server, but looks like it might be over kill for what I want to do. Cheers, Paul. Oh anyone calls me Faggoty........ I'll cry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Ubuntu is my choice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I always liked Alfred from Batman. Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Non-faggoty Ubuntu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 if you have a windows license and know how to use it then why not just rebuild it? Personally id try and get ESXi on there and then maybe run both windows and linux. Ubunutu is nice although lately I have found suse to be quite interesting too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Well I moved away from Ubuntu back to Fedora (used to use Fedora years ago), I'm not keen on the direction Ubuntu is headed. If this is to be a server though I would use a proper server distro, Ubuntu Server Edition would be OK, or Debian, or CentOS (basically RedHat Enterprise Linux). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I agree that there are better distros out there for a server than ubuntu desktop, but a jump from windows 2003 to debain or something is going to be a little hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 ubuntu 10.10 with webmin - JOB DONE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Iserver than ubuntu desktop, Hey what??? Ubuntu desktop is meant for well, desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 This is my download server, so a bit of playing around is just fine.. If I'm going to rebuild, I'm tempted to try one of the server distro's, but would like one that's a little friendly.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 yeah but it has a GUI and works out the box, you can install whatever you want on it.. maybe use SUSE with KDE? All im saying is jumping into ubuntu server from windows 2003 wont be easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 yeah but it has a GUI and works out the box, you can install whatever you want on it.. maybe use SUSE with KDE? All im saying is jumping into ubuntu server from windows 2003 wont be easy. Just install Gnome when you install Ubuntu Server then, just because it's a server OS doesn't mean you have to stick with command line stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Just install Gnome when you install Ubuntu Server then, just because it's a server OS doesn't mean you have to stick with command line stuff Real server men use CLI! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 I'm not scared of a command line... Tandems, Main Frame, Solaris, Linux I've used them all over the years. Used to love running the Tandems.. Lovely bit of kit that. But, hey I'm lazy.. Deffo would install a GUI and connect using VNC. Only thing is that the default VNC server in Ubuntu seems to only allow access when someone is logged on. I'd like to be able to log someone on from the VNC connection. I would assume I can do that as I can do that with UltraVNC and my Win2K3 server. Cheers, Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Only thing is that the default VNC server in Ubuntu seems to only allow access when someone is logged on. I'd like to be able to log someone on from the VNC connection. I would assume I can do that as I can do that with UltraVNC and my Win2K3 server. Cheers, Paul. I presume you can change that but I don't know. I use NX to connect to the machines I look after. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology http://www.nomachine.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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