Tutorials and How-tos

Beginner

• Access Bubba Server via SSH

• Connect via SSH without a Password

• Edit Text Files with nano

• GNU Screen Quick Tutorial

• Monitor Hard Drive Temperature

• Secure Remote Access to Bubba via WinSCP
• Installing NTFS Read Write Support
• Update your B3 to support 3TB disks

Intermediate

• Prevent SSH Attacks with DenyHosts
• Add symbolic links to the storage folder for easier file sharing
• Archiving social media data with ThinkUp
• Backup with rsync and rsync.net
• Backup data from Bubba to external drive using Rsync
• Bubba as Squeezebox
• Change Email Quotas
• Changing Horde Download Limit
• Create a working USB stick using Bubba|Two
• Create new language files

• Display HDD temperature in web interface

• Enable Playback of .flac Files from Bubba on Rhythmbox
• Help on using Aptitude
• HP Printers - hplip
  
• Install a DynDNS Client

• Install a No-IP Client
  

• Install Debian Packages

• Install FluxBB

• Install Squid Proxy Server Transparently
• Install Subversion
• Install Subversion with Apache
• Install Tcpdump Packet Sniffer for Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
• Install Transmission Bittorrent
• Let your B3 beep and change the LED color
  

• MAC address filter for wireless network
  
• Mounting Popcorn Hour NFS share on B3
  

• Recover lost administrator password
• Running graphical application from Bubba on your windows pc
• Running graphical applications from Bubba using VNC

• Use Bubba with Time Machine (Mac OS X)
  
• Monitor Network Traffic with Tcpick
  
• Running Vuze with B3
• Restrict admin access to LAN
  
• Tweak B3 for better performance
• Throttle Apache bandwidth
• Revert to minimal Debian installation
• Restrict access to /home/storage

Advanced

• Build and Rebuild Packages
• Be your own Certificate Authority

• Change certificates used by Apache

• Connect Two Bubba Servers via VPN

• How to set up multifactor authentication
  

• Install Clam AntiVirus
• Setting up postfix for authenticated relay
• Setting up postfix for sending mail using an external SMTP server
• Send mail using GMAIL
• Use procmail to sort incoming emails
• Install ntop, a network traffic probe
  

• Install vnStat
  

• NFS installation - file permissions - Windows vs Bubba vs Ubuntu

• Redirect all connections over SSL/HTTPS
  

• Serial Console Access on B3

• Tunnel DNS and Web Traffic Through VPN
  

• Use a Rescue System to recover when your B3 doesn't boot anymore

• Using eCryptfs on the B3
  
• Make Strongswan (ipsec vpn) start on a b3
• Install Snort Intrusion Detection System
• Install TrueCrypt Disk and File Encryption Software
• Password protect directories using htaccess
• Install MediaWiki
• Enable User Quotas on B3
  
• Use mobile internet 3g USB dongle as WAN
  
• Make Hourly Snapshot Style Backups to an external disk
• Change Debian Sources easier
• Installing packages through the web interface
• HomeAutomation and Tellstick