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CURRENT STABLE RELEASE: Amahi 6.1, Ubuntu 1204 LTS edition
NOTE: Please excuse our mess as the wiki is being restructured to support Fedora and Ubuntu.
Contents
- Intro: Introduction to the Amahi HDA
- Requirements: What's needed
- FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
- Feedback: Issues, feedback.
For questions or help do not hesitate to contact us.
Installation
- See Installation instructions in your control panel at amahi.org
- Self-install: Alternative, unsupported installation instructions
- Amahi on a VM: Installing Amahi in a Virtual Machine
- Express CD: Headless all-in-one Install
Getting Started
First you can take a look at the Popular Pages to see if your topic of interest is there. Otherwise find the major topics below in groups.
Storage and file sharing - How to store your music, pictures, movies and other files and share them with the rest of the devices in your network.
- Accessing files from:
Networking - Using your HDA to manage your home network
- Networking - Static IPs: How to assign static IPs to your network devices.
- Punching DNS Holes: How to assign IP addresses outside of your network for your home domain.
- Access HDA over SSL: How to make your HDA default to HTTPS for secure LAN logins.
- Access Web Apps over SSL: How to make your web apps default to HTTPS for secure LAN access.
- Password Protect Web Apps: How to password protect access to web apps.
- Firewall: iptables: How to enable iptables firewall on your HDA.
- Proxy server: squid: How to create a proxy server.
- squidGuard: Content filtering using squidGuard.
- Netboot: How to set up PXE Network boot.
- Change IP Address/Network Gateway/DHCP Server Range: Change IP address of your Amahi server, Network Gateway, and DHCP Server Range.
Remote Access - Accessing your HDA from anywhere on the network
- Accessing your HDA remotely from:
- FreeNX: Accessing your HDA with FreeNX
- SSH based access to your HDA: Key-Based SSH Logins
Troubleshooting
- Installation troubleshooting
- Network troubleshooting
- Shares troubleshooting
- VPN troubleshooting
- Vista Networking Issue
- Disabling Automatic Updates
- Data Recovery
- Filesystem
Doing More
- Apps Directory: These are the help pages for some of the apps in the Apps Gallery
- Adding an HDA networked printer: Guide to set up print server on your HDA.
- Backups: Guides on backup and restore: Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Ubuntu Linux, and MacOSX.
- Adding a second hard drive to your HDA: How to add a additional hard drives.
- Greyhole: Add drive pooling to your HDA (ie Turn multiple drives into one!)
- RAID guides for RAID 1 and RAID 5
- Add Dropbox service: Allows a HDA Dropbox share folder to automatically synchronize with a DropBox account.
- Automatic Database Backup: Automatically have your HDA database backed up daily.
- Enable Outgoing Mail: Use your ISP to send mail from your HDA.
- Monitor System Logs via E-mail: Sends logs to designated e-mail address daily.
- Send Outgoing Emails via Gmail: Use your Gmail account to send mail from your HDA.
- Disk Error Alerts: Monitor disk drive wellness and receive email alerts if errors are detected.
- Greyhole Log via Web Browser: Monitor the Greyhole via your browser.
Using Applications
For a more detailed list refer to the Apps Directory
- Remote File Management using AjaxPlorer
- Calendars: How to use the calendar server in the HDA, including Outlook and iCal sync.
- Dashboard: Using the amahi Dashboard
Getting "Under the Hood"
- How to Create a new Theme
- Linux/HDA Commands: Common used command for linux and HDA.
- Making your own web apps: how to make your own web apps, with your code or other's code
- Hosting your own web site: how to host your own web site on the web from your Amahi home server
- Changing your DNS provider
- Configuring OpenDNS
- Use two HDAs on same network
- Using Tonido
- Post Install Hardware Changes: Required actions for changing hardware on your Amahi server (i.e. mother board, network card, etc).
Contribute
- Translate Amahi to your language
- Create a Bug/Feature/Support ticket!
- Contribute by:
Roadmap & Development
The core team ONLY supports Fedora and Ubuntu development at this time. All others are being supported by the user community.
- Fedora 14: Maintenance support ONLY
- Fedora 15: Not Supported
- Fedora 16: Development halted.
- Fedora 17: Development starting soon.
- Ubuntu 12.04: Current Stable Release
- CentOS 5: Development Halted
- CentOS 6: Development Stalled
- Scientific Linux 6.1: Development Stalled.
Related Links
- Developers: How to write HDA apps, questions, API suggestions, etc.
- Credits: How are we doing all this? We have many OSS projects to thank!