Hi,
I've a spare p4 computer in my home and since no one is quite willing to buy it for a decent price, I'm thinking of using it as a download/file server kind of machine. Now the problem is that, this will not be having a monitor/kb/mouse connected to it. It'll just be powered on and connected to a router through ethernet. Currently it has winxp running on it.
Now how to make a setup such that, I can schedule downloads (torrents/rs) on this machine from my laptop ? Basically how to create a remote login interface that can be accessed from any laptop? I'll also be running TVersity on this to stream content to my PS3. Also, I might use this as a backup machine to store my data when needed. So I will need to copy data to this machine from my laptops as well.
And , how to make it secure ? I don't want anybody to access this machine over the network or from the wifi router since it'll always be connected. ( I hope I'm making sense here (!) )
I don't have any idea regarding this. So I need to know the softwares to be used, the OS etc that needs to run on the server machine. I'm a bit out of touch with Linux, if you can give me a windows based solution, it'll be easy for me.
I've a spare p4 computer in my home and since no one is quite willing to buy it for a decent price, I'm thinking of using it as a download/file server kind of machine. Now the problem is that, this will not be having a monitor/kb/mouse connected to it. It'll just be powered on and connected to a router through ethernet. Currently it has winxp running on it.
Now how to make a setup such that, I can schedule downloads (torrents/rs) on this machine from my laptop ? Basically how to create a remote login interface that can be accessed from any laptop? I'll also be running TVersity on this to stream content to my PS3. Also, I might use this as a backup machine to store my data when needed. So I will need to copy data to this machine from my laptops as well.
And , how to make it secure ? I don't want anybody to access this machine over the network or from the wifi router since it'll always be connected. ( I hope I'm making sense here (!) )
I don't have any idea regarding this. So I need to know the softwares to be used, the OS etc that needs to run on the server machine. I'm a bit out of touch with Linux, if you can give me a windows based solution, it'll be easy for me.