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This is where Amahi community members can best help other Amahi users. Please add or edit any information in the Wiki that you feel is lacking, missing, or need improvement.

What is an HDA

• 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.

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.
• Vista Networking Issue: Latest vista updates cause network issues.

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

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 the multiple ways to backup and restore: from full-disk backup to incremental backups for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu Linux, and Macs.
• Adding a second hard drive to your HDA: How to add a additional hard drives.
• RAID guides for RAID 1 and RAID 5

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"

• Password protection for your HDA setup pages: Guide to set up password protection to your HDA pages.
• How to Create a new Theme
• Linux/HDA Commands: Common used command for linux and HDA.
• Making your own web apps: this HOWTO shows how to make your own web apps, with your code or other's code
• Hosting your own web site: HOWTO for hosting your own web site on the web from your Amahi home server
• Changing your DNS provider
• Configuring OpenDNS

Contribute

• Translate Amahi to your language
• Create a Bug/Feature/Support ticket!
• Monitor System Logs via E-mail: Sends logs to designated e-mail address daily.
• Contribute by:

1. Packaging apps
2. Testing apps

• Amahi Wallpapers
• Amahi Banners

Roadmap & Development

• Fedora 11 - Not Supported
• Fedora 12 - Current Supported Version
• Fedora 13 - Not Supported
• Fedora 14 - Under Development
• Ubuntu - Under Development
• CentOS - Under Development

Installation

• Visit the main supported installation instructions at your control panel in amahi.org
• Hardware Requirements
• Self-install: Alternative, unsupported installation instructions
• Amahi on a VM: Installing Amahi in a Virtual Machine

Related Links

• Intro: Introduction to the Amahi HDA
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• Feedback: Issues, feedback.
• Developers: How to write HDA apps, questions, API suggestions, etc.
• Requirements: What's needed
• Credits: How are we doing all this? We have many OSS projects to thank!

For questions or help do not hesitate to contact us.