So I have big dreams and if someone could point me in the right direction that would be dandy.
I'm going to be living in a suite next year with a couple other people and I want to have a computer act as a main server. It would always be on and stay in the common room and it would have all the movies and music on it.
Ideally all the files on the computer could be accessed from any other computer on the network (wifi). I'd like to be able to stream the movies(realtime) from the main server computer to any other computer connected. As well as play music that is stored on the server(realtime) from any other computer connected. But of course I wouldn't want anyone outside the LAN to be able to access anything.
I'd like to dual boot with windows 7 and some version of linux. But I don't know how much space to allot for each partition. Like would I give 5 gigs to linux partition, 5 gigs to windows 7 partition, then partition part of the hard drive to just be storage space (and would that be accessible by both OS partitions)?
Which version of linux would I want that would be capable of doing what I've listed?
Should I go with a linux server or just a regular ubuntu type deal?
I don't have the specific specs but I'd do this on a desktop pc that was top of the line about a year ago. Has about 500 GB of internal storage.
I don't know if this is posted in the right place and obviously sorry if I've put anything ignorantly, but if I could get a link to a website that magically answers all my questions or a shove in the right direction, it'd be much appreciated.
Thanks.
I'm going to be living in a suite next year with a couple other people and I want to have a computer act as a main server. It would always be on and stay in the common room and it would have all the movies and music on it.
Ideally all the files on the computer could be accessed from any other computer on the network (wifi). I'd like to be able to stream the movies(realtime) from the main server computer to any other computer connected. As well as play music that is stored on the server(realtime) from any other computer connected. But of course I wouldn't want anyone outside the LAN to be able to access anything.
I'd like to dual boot with windows 7 and some version of linux. But I don't know how much space to allot for each partition. Like would I give 5 gigs to linux partition, 5 gigs to windows 7 partition, then partition part of the hard drive to just be storage space (and would that be accessible by both OS partitions)?
Which version of linux would I want that would be capable of doing what I've listed?
Should I go with a linux server or just a regular ubuntu type deal?
I don't have the specific specs but I'd do this on a desktop pc that was top of the line about a year ago. Has about 500 GB of internal storage.
I don't know if this is posted in the right place and obviously sorry if I've put anything ignorantly, but if I could get a link to a website that magically answers all my questions or a shove in the right direction, it'd be much appreciated.
Thanks.