Control your home server

Mon, Dec 19, 2011

Last year I published my Ultimate Single Sign On tool for setting up a perfect Home Server. The work on this project is not yet done and I can use all the help you guys can offer me. Setup is easy: just use VirtualBox, Ubuntu Server and install after a git clone of git://github.com/hermanbanken/Ultimate-Single-Sign-On-Enviroment-Installer.git.

When you have this (or your own working LDAP server) up and running your users can login on Mac OS X and Ubuntu and can use their home directories and stuff. But they can’t change their credentials and user info, till now..

LDAP Control is a control centre for your Home Server where your users can manage their data (feature #2) but can also start and plan backups (feature #1), browse your families Address Book (feature #3), manage your favorite series and movies through the media centre (feature 4), and much more (when you guys help me).

Git repository for ‘Single Sign On’-project

Wed, Jun 15, 2011 When I first made my installer for OpenLDAP I did this for my own convenience. But while doing so I realized the script could be useful for more people and I published it on my blog. Then it became big, and I invited Sean to write for my blog about this project. For Sean and you guys I just made a git repository on GitHub so anyone can edit the installer to be the best (and first) SSO-installer ever.

WhatsApp on Mac or PC

Mon, May 23, 2011 Update 13/01/13: run WhatsApp on your pc/mac without a phone/VNC! WhatsApp is a fairly new App for multiple mobile devices. Due to the App Store, Android Market, etc. it grew huge in just a few months. Especially since people started to use them as a replacement for SMS chats and because your identity is based on your mobile number. I think WhatsApp as a service has one disadvantage: it only works on mobile devices.

Want a free/open-source Apple Home Server?

Sun, Mar 27, 2011

When Apple introduced the Mac Mini server version nobody knew. When Apple discontinued the XServe people started thinking. When the changes for OS X Lion became public and OS X Server was merged into the client-version, everybody should have known. When the rumors came that Apple will stop using Samba and implement their own SMB2 server/client, I knew: Apple wants to give the world an alternative to Windows Home Server (WHS).

Whats in for me?