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

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• 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:

1. Mac OS X
2. Other Linux Systems

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:

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

• 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:

1. Packaging apps
2. Testing apps

• Amahi Wallpapers
• Amahi Banners

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!