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CURRENT STABLE RELEASE: Amahi 6.1, Ubuntu 1204 LTS edition

NOTE: The wiki is being restructured to support Fedora and Ubuntu. There will be many things moving around over the next several days.

• Introduction to the Amahi HDA
• System requirements

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Issues and feedback

Installation

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS instructions
• Fedora 14 instructions
  • Self-install: Unsupported
  • Express CD: Headless (all-in-one)
  • Amahi on a VM

Troubleshooting

• Installation: Fedora, Ubuntu
• Network, Vista Networking Issue
• Shares
• VPN
• Data Recovery, Filesystem

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.

Files Access - how to work with shares

• Mac OS X
• Other Linux Systems

Tutorials - contributed by user community

• Ubuntu
• Fedora

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

• VPN: outside your network.
• SSH (key-based) access to your HDA.
• VNC: inside your network (e.g. if your HDA is "headless").
  • Ubuntu
  • Fedora

Doing More

• 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
• Greyhole Log via Web Browser: Monitor the Greyhole via your browser.
• 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.
• Creating web apps: how to make your own web apps, with your code or other's code
• Hosting web site: how to host your own web site on the web from your Amahi home server
• Changing DNS provider
• Configuring OpenDNS
• Use two HDAs on same network
• Post Install Hardware Changes: Required actions for changing hardware on your Amahi server (i.e. mother board, network card, etc).

Roadmap & Development

The core team ONLY supports Ubuntu and Fedora development at this time. All others are being supported by the user community.

ACTIVE

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: Current Stable Release
• Fedora 17: Development starting soon.
• Fedora 9, 10, 12, and 14: Maintenance support ONLY

INACTIVE

• Fedora 15 and 16: Not Supported
• CentOS 5 and 6: Development Halted.
• Scientific Linux 6.1: Development halted.

Contribute

• Translate Amahi to your language
• Create a Bug/Feature/Support ticket!
• Contribute by: Packaging apps, Testing apps
• Amahi Wallpapers, Amahi Banners

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!