GettingStarted

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OK. You've just finished installing your Amahi Home Server and rebooted it (we call it an HDA - Home Digital Assistant for short). Now what do you do?

Well, the first thing is to connect to your HDA from a computer on your network. Simply enter hda (http://hda) in the URL for your browser and you'll find yourself looking at your HDA home page.

HDA startup page

To get going we recommend the first things you do are:

  • Create a user to access shares
  • Create a share for storing/sharing files in your network

Create A User

To create a user

  1. use the setup link (http://setup)
  2. select the Users tab
  3. press the "New User" button
  4. enter information for the user and press the "Create button"

Create A Share

To create a share

  1. use the setup link (http://setup)
  2. select the Shares tab
  3. press the "New Share" button
  4. enter information for the share and press the "Create button"

Once a share is created you can specify more details about it. Click on the Share you just created and you can specify

  • whether it is visible to users on your network
  • which specific users can access (read) or write to the share
  • what sort of information will be stored in the share

Doing More with Your HDA

Return to http://hda where you will find links to

Of course there are a whole lot of other things you can do with your HDA (like use the VPN to have secure remote access, publish multiple calendars, etc).