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. There will be many things moving around over the next several days.

Installation

Fedora 14 instructions
- Self-install: Unsupported
- Express CD: Headless (all-in-one)
- Amahi on a VM
Ubuntu 112.04 LTS instructions

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.
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:
VPN: outside your network.
VNC: inside your network (e.g. if your HDA is "headless").

1. Fedora
2. Ubuntu

FreeNX: Accessing your HDA with FreeNX
SSH based access to your HDA: Key-Based SSH Logins

Troubleshooting

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).

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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.

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