Specials

File Server Appliance

Simple Network Attached Storage

An easy to use file server that combines Windows-compatible network file sharing with an advanced web based file manager and includes support for SMB, SFTP and rsync file transfer protocols. The server is configured to allow server users to manage files in private or public storage. Based on Samba and eXtplorer.

Current version: 2009.10-2 (changelog)

Download:

131MB VM (sig)

138MB ISO (sig) (manifest)

Launch to cloud:

TurnKey Hub (Amazon EC2 - Simplified)

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

SSL support out of the box.
Webmin module for configuring Samba.
File server (Samba) configurations:
- Preconfigured wordgroup: WORKGROUP
- Preconfigured netbios name: FILESERVER
- Configured Samba user accounts to synchronize with UNIX user accounts.
- Configured root as administrative samba user.
- Configured shares:
  - Users home directory.
  - Public storage.
  - CD-ROM with automount and umount hooks (/media/cdrom).
Web based file manager (eXtplorer) configuration:
- Includes popular compression support (zip, rar, bz2).
- Includes flip to convert text file endings between UNIX and DOS formats.
- Includes vsftpd binded to localhost to provide net2ftp backend.
  - Provide users access to their home directories.
  - Workarounds permission issues with eXtplorer.

Default storage: /srv/storage
Accessing file server via samba on the command line:

    smbclient //1.0.0.61/storage -Uroot
    mount -t cifs //1.0.0.61/storage /mnt -o username=root,password=PASSWORD

Default credentials:

Webmin, Webshell, SSH, Samba: username root, no password
- user sets password during installation
Web based file manager (eXtplorer):
- username admin, password turnkey
- username guest, password turnkey
- Local FTP authentication is done using UNIX users