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DIY Ubuntu NAS with AFP, SMB, DLNA and iTunes

I have been posting a lot about the LaCie Network Space recently. I finally had the courage to try and tinker with it and managed to add ssh and obtain root access. I was overjoyed, I proceeded to install ipkg, a package management tool much like apt-get, but suitable for weaker or embedded systems. The first thing I did was to install rsync, which I used to backup my data to an external usb drive. About one day after my backups were finished, the Network Space froze up on me and has now become an elegant yet unresponsive black box.

So I setup up my own NAS server on my spare Ubuntu laptop that plays nice with my Mac, serves media files to my Samsung LE40B650 and even shares my music with iTunes. Updated 2010.1.1