Hello. Many routers have an integrated “print server,” that is, the ability to connect a printer via USB and share it on the network. In case your router doesn’t have this capability, we could always use our Raspberry as a print server with Cups apt-get install cups we enable administration from the web interface cupsctl –share-printers –remote-admin –remote-printers and add our user to the “lpadmin” group usermod -a -G lpadmin our_user ...
Hello. A torrent client can always be useful (naturally only for legal purposes), so let’s proceed sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon By doing this, we’ll install a daemon (always active), to stop it sudo service transmission-daemon stop Once stopped, let’s take the opportunity to configure it sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json where “download-dir” = full path where to save your downloads “download-limit” = number of simultaneous downloads “download-limit-enabled” = number of downloads, 1 enabled, 0 disabled ...
Hello. Let’s share a folder on Raspbian with a Samba server. Let’s install sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin and let’s configure it by changing the parameters in its configuration file sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf Uncomment workgroup = WORKGROUP wins support = yes where “WORKGROUP” should be replaced with your network’s workgroup and “wins support” is for Windows systems support (if you’re not interested, you can leave it unchanged), ...
Hello. On a Raspberry used as a NAS, it’s essential to have an external hard drive (or a large enough USB drive), and usually these are formatted in NTFS, the file system used by Windows. To mount it, we need to install “NTFS-3G” sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g once done, we look for the UUID of the hard drive sudo blkid Once you’ve found the UUID corresponding to the partition of interest, edit the /etc/fstab file ...
Hello. Want a browser different from the one on Raspbian and more specifically Chrome? Well, Chrome isn’t available but there’s Chromium, which is an open source web browser from which Chrome is derived. To install it sudo apt-get install chromium Bye! ! :) !
Hello. To install No-IP, download the package from the official website, extract the content, compile, and install it sudo make sudo make install During the installation, you will be asked which network card to use (in case of a Wi-Fi card as well), to enter the email address and password of your account, and for which host you want to update the IP address. To start it sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2 ...
Hello. If you’re looking for a guide on Hamachi, you already know what it is. Before installing it, update the system sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade install “ lsb-core”: sudo apt-get install lsb-core In the meantime, download the client from the official website, ARM HF version naturally .deb. Once all this is done, from the terminal go to the folder where you downloaded the package and install it: ...
Hello. As you’ve surely noticed, when connecting the Raspberry to a FullHD monitor, the resolution isn’t 1920x1080, and it’s not possible to select it. To force this resolution, go to: sudo nano /boot/config.txt look for all disable_overscan=0 and change the value to 1 (from 0 to 1). Finally, at the end of the file, comment out the following lines (comment with #): overscan_left=24 overscan_right=24 overscan_top=16 overscan_bottom=16 Restart the Raspberry. ...
Hello. You’ve surely noticed that on Raspbian there is software that may be useless for us. To uninstall this software you can use the command: apt-get purge –auto-remove software_to_delete I deleted these: sudo apt-get purge scratch sudo apt-get purge debian-reference-en dillo idle3 python3-tk idle python-pygame python-tk sudo apt-get purge minecraft-pi sudo apt-get purge sonic-pi Finally a nice: apt-get autoremove Bye! ! :) ! Source: http://www.stefan-seelmann.de/wiki/rasperrypi-homeserver
Hello. After installing Raspbian (on the Raspberry website there are all the necessary guides), the first things to do are: enable ssh: sudo raspi-config navigate to the “SSH” option under “Advanced options” and enable it (it’s not necessary but it might be useful for remote access). Change the default username and password (respectively “pi” and “raspberry”): enable the root user with: sudo passwd root log out from the pi user, log in as root and give these commands (new_user = your new username): ...