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I’m starting this little project to set up a NAS (Network attached storage) at my home.\n\n### Why do I need a NAS.\n\nI actually don’t need any NAS, but I have an old Acer Aspire with the following specs.\n\n![Untitled](pages/main/ubuntu-screen.png)\n\nAnd I will bring a new life to this old engine, capable to do some magic.\n\n### How to convert a laptop into NAS\n\nThe first thing I need to figure out is what operating system this NAS will be using. I choose Ubuntu for this, but instead of running a headless installation, I will use the laptop big 16’’ screen to show a clean GUI to manage all the stuff locally.\n\nI could have chosen any linux distro like fedora, debian or even lightweight and headless arch instead, but I see Ubuntu a good spot between the debian apt package manager and the fedora performance and stability.\n\n### Configuring Ubuntu Mate UI\n\nFirst of all, this server can be access locally, so I don’t want the future me driving mad due to ugly UI, so I tweak mate desktop environment with a few goodies.\n\n### Papirus icon theme, the good old classic.\n\nI like papirus modern / flat design, so I install the icons here using.\n\n```bash\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/papirus\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install papirus-icon-theme\n```\n\n### Adapta-nokto, beautiful dark mode.\n\nYes, I like dark mode UI. Adapta seems simple enough to run well on a 10 year old laptop without issues at all and is beautiful, so here it i our GUI.\n\n```bash\nsudo apt-add-repository ppa:tista/adapta \nsudo apt update\nsudo apt install adapta-gtk-theme\n``` \n\n![Ubuntu desktop](pages/main/ubuntu-desktop.png)\n\n# Manage over the network\n\nI will like to manage the NAS sometimes from my reliable MSI modern 14 running fedora. This is my most used computer, and I use it to develop any kind of software, so I will configure ssh on both.\n\nTo install the ssh software in ubuntu I run the following command:\n\n```bash\n sudo apt-get install openssh-server ii.\n```\n\nI install ssh client on my laptop and connect using the following command\n\n```bash\nssh nas-admin@x.x.x.x\n```\n\n\u003caside\u003e\n💡 x.x.x.x represents the NAS IP address and nas-admin the user\n\n\u003c/aside\u003e\n\nHere we go, something like this will prompt. **We are in!**\n\n```bash\nnas-admin@portable-nas:~$\n```\n\n### Accessing via hostname\n\nif you don’t want to use that large IP, I’ve you covered! go to your hosts file on \n\n**/etc/hosts** and add the following line:\n\n```\nx.x.x.x portable-nas\n```\n\nSo now you can access the NAS with the following friendly hostname \n\n```\nssh nas-admin@portable-nas\n```\n\n[Configuring Network](/pages/1.ConfiguringNetwork.md)\n\n[Storage](/pages/2.Storage.md)\n\n[Github backup](/pages/3.GithubBackup.md)\n\n[Github backup: Update 1](/pages/GithubBackup/1.Scriptv1.0.md)","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fakrck02%2Flaptop-nas-project","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fakrck02%2Flaptop-nas-project","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fakrck02%2Flaptop-nas-project/lists"}