Hello,

I want to setup a server that can be used to remotely store my files, stream my music and host some webpage material (I also want to be able to add services).

I have set up Fedora 9 with server packages installed but I am not at all experienced in the networking field so that I don't really know how to handle the task.

The problem is that I will not be able to directly access the server computer in a few days as I will leave the country and I don't think I will be able to get it fully functional in the remaining time.

Therefore I need to set up a version of the server that can be remotely accessed and upgraded. I realize that the computer might be switched sometimes switched for various reasons, so that I would need to enable 'wake-on-lan' and know the IP of the server, which is complicated by the fact that it is dynamic.

My network setup is the following:

|
ISP
|
SpeedTouch----Server
|-------------------PC1
|-------------------PC2
....

The SpeedTouch device is modem and router at the same time, so that I can not plug my server between the ISP and my home network for it to gain the public IP. It is possible to configure the router to give the public IP to one of the computers on the network, i.e. the server.

As my ISP gives me a dynamic IP, I tried to enable a DDNS script which was available at no-ip.org the page where I also acquired my DNS.

Equipment Specs:

router:
Thomson SpeedTouch 858v6

server computer:
P3 601 Mhz
382 MB ram
hdd1 12GB
hdd2 40GB
Fedora 9 (server packages installed)

thanks for the help.

First, have a look at http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/

Second, it doesn't matter that your server doesn't have a public IP. Just make sure your router/modem forwards and relevant ports to your server on a private IP.

For example, you will no doubt want to be able to access the server via ssh while you are away. If the server is on 192.16.8.0.1, make sure that the router forwards port 22 traffic to 192.168.0.1

You can do this with each port you want to forward, or if you want, you can forward all ports to the server (but probably not the best idea)