Excito BUBBA User Manual

BUBBA SERVER

Users Manual

Please note:

This manual always refers to the latest firmware version.

Press “update” in the web administration interface.

WARNING!

To prevent loss of data or malfunction, always shut down BUBBA properly.

To shut down, keep the button pressed for five seconds. The front light will blink while shutting down, and turn off when BUBBA is ready to be disconnected.

Never remove the power while the LED is lit or blinking!

1. FEATURES 5

2. INSTALLATION 6

3. ADMINISTRATOR 12

3.1. ADMIN ACCOUNT 12

3.2. SERVICES 14

3.3. SETTINGS 15

4. USERS 17

5. STORAGE 18

5.1. USING THE FILE SERVER 18

5.2. WEB BASED FILE MANAGER 20

5.3. USING THE DOWNLOAD MANAGER 24

5.4. USING THE FTP SERVER 25

6. THE PRINTER SERVER 25

7. THE MEDIA SERVERS 26

7.1. FIREFLY MEDIA SERVER 27

7.2. MEDIATOMB MEDIA SERVER 27

8. THE WEB SERVER 28

9. THE EMAIL SERVER 29

9.1. HANDLING INCOMING EMAILS 29

9.2. READING EMAILS 30

9.3. SENDING EMAILS 30

9.4. THE FETCHMAIL SERVICE 30

10. REACHING BUBBA FROM OUTSIDE 33

10.1. PASSING TRAFFIC THROUGH YOUR FIREWALL 33

10.2. EXTERNAL IP ADDRESS 34

10.3. PERSONAL DOMAIN NAME 34

11. FIRMWARE UPGRADE 35

12. BACKUP 36

12.1. PERSONAL DATA AND EMAIL ON YOUR PC 36

12.2. PERSONAL DATA AND EMAIL ON BUBBA 36

13. INSTALLING/REINSTALLING SOFTWARE 37

14. GETTING INSIDE YOUR BUBBA 39

14.1. SSH 39

14.2. INSTALLING OTHER APPLICATIONS 39

14.3. CUSTOMIZING THE WEB INTERFACE 39

14.4. INSTALLING A DISK 40

15. TECHNICAL DATA 42

15.1. SOFTWARE 42

15.2. HARDWARE 42

16. FAQ 43

17. SUPPORT 46

Typical home network setup

1. FEATURES

BUBBA server is a miniature server, primarily for use at home or in a small business. Nonetheless, BUBBA loaded with functionality, which makes BUBBA very versatile:

• Use BUBBA as a home file server, allowing you to reach all your files from work or school. No need for USB memories or other portable media, and no risk of forgetting anything.

• Use BUBBA as a fully functional Linux computer. Enjoy the advantages of low noise, low energy consumption and low price. Choose from 10000+ Linux/Debian applications available, or use the pre-installed server functionality.

• Let BUBBA download your large files, turn off your computer and relax. Since BUBBA is almost completely quiet (no fans), you can have it running all the time.

• Use BUBBA as your web, email and FTP server. Don’t leave the noisy and energy consuming PC running when you don’t need to.

• Found a file you need to download, but you’re at work? Paste the link in to BUBBAs download manager, and the file will download while you are at work. HTTP/FTP/bittorrent support.

• Back up your critical files using your BUBBA.

• Use BUBBA as your printer server, to allow many computers in

your local network to share one printer.

• Use BUBBA as a central email server, fetching your emails from various POP or IMAP accounts, making them available to you on one address, via web mail or IMAP, wherever you are.

• Let BUBBA stream music to your Itunes compatible music player (DAAP), for instance Roku/Pinnacle Soundbridge.

2. INSTALLATION

Bubba automatically tries to connect to your local network (LAN). However, depending on your home network setup, this is not always possible. Follow the below instructions to connect to your Bubba.

Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME or 98

1. Open a web browser, and type http://bubba/ in the address field

and press enter.

If you reach Bubba’s default page now, you are connected, and don’t need to read further in this chapter. If not, continue with:

2. Connect your PC directly to your BUBBA via a crossover network

cable.

3. Temporarily change your IP address of your PC to 192.168.0.1 by

following these instructions:

a) Open Windows Start menu. b) Open Control Panel. c) Classic view: Open Network Connections

Category view: Select Network and Internet Connections,

and then Network Connections. d) Double-click on your active LAN or Internet connection. e) Click Properties.

This opens the Local Area Connections Properties window.

f) In the General tab, highlight the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

item, and click Properties:

g) This opens the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window. h) In the General tab, write down your old IP address, Subnet

mask and default gateway. i) Change these fields to:

IP address: 192.168.0.1

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Default gateway: 192.168.0.1

j) Click OK. k) Click OK to close each window. l) Restart your computer (not needed if using Windows XP).

4. Now open a web browser window and type http://192.168.0.242/

You should reach BUBBA’s default page.

5. Click ‘Bubba administration’.

6. Log in using the user name ‘admin’ and the password ‘admin’.

7. Click ‘Settings’ and ‘Network settings".

8. In the ‘IP’ field, change from ‘192.168.0.242’ to something beginning with the same three parts as your original IP address. I.e. if your PC had the IP 192.168.1.10, a suitable IP for BUBBA would be 192.168.1.242.

9. Press ‘Update’. Note that you will now loose contact with BUBBA, this is fully normal.

10. Reset the IP of your PC to the original IP address by repeating step 2, but change back to your original settings.

11. Restart your computer.

12. Open a browser and type http://bubba/

. Now, you are able to

reach BUBBA.

MAC

1. Open a web browser, and type http://bubba.local/

in the address

field and press enter.

If you reach Bubba’s default page now, you are connected, and don’t need to read further in this chapter. If not, continue with:

2. Connect your PC directly to your BUBBA via a crossover network cable.

3. Temporarily change your IP address of your PC to 192.168.0.1. Please consult your computer’s manual on how to do this. Don’t forget to write down your original IP address.

4. Now open a web browser window and type http://192.168.0.242/

You should reach BUBBA’s default page.

5. Click ‘Bubba administration’.

6. Log in using the user name ‘admin’ and the password ‘admin’.

7. Click ‘Settings’ and ‘Network settings".

9. Press ‘Update’. Note that you will now loose contact with BUBBA, this is fully normal.

10. Reset the IP of your PC to the original IP address.

11. Open a browser and type http://bubba.local/

. Now, are able to

reach BUBBA.

Linux

1. You need to find out what IP address your Bubba has obtained. Open a terminal window, and type: ‘nmblookup bubba’. BUBBA’s IP address will be returned.

2. Open a web browser, and type that IP address in the address field and press enter. I.e.

http://192.168.0.242.

If you reach Bubba’s default page now, you are connected, and don’t need to read further in this chapter. If not, continue with:

3. Connect your PC directly to your BUBBA via a crossover network cable.

4. Temporarily change your IP address of your PC to 192.168.0.1. Don’t forget to write down your original IP address. This is done differently depending on what Linux distribution you have; please consult the appropriate documentation on how to do this.

5. Now open a web browser window and type http://192.168.0.242/

You should reach BUBBA’s default page.

6. Click ‘Bubba administration’.

7. Log in using the user name ‘admin’ and the password ‘admin’.

8. Click ‘Settings’ and ‘Network settings".

9. In the ‘IP’ field, change from ‘192.168.0.242’ to something beginning with the same three parts as your original IP address. I.e. if your PC had the IP 192.168.1.10, a suitable IP for BUBBA would be 192.168.1.242.

10. Press ‘Update’. Note that you will now loose contact with BUBBA, this is fully normal.

11. Reset the IP of your PC to the original IP address.

12. Open a browser and type BUBBA’s new IP address (I.e.

http://192.168.1.242/

. Now you are able to reach BUBBA.

In depth technical explanation –

BUBBA’s IP address

Note that you do not have to read this if you aren’t interested. Simply follow the guide on the next page.

All network devices on the same LAN (your computer, BUBBA Server, your home router) needs to have unique IP addresses. And, for them to be able to communicate with each other, they need to have IP addresses in the same IP series, beginning with the same three parts. For instance, two computers with IP addresses 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.0.250 are able to communicate. Two computers with IP addresses 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.1.250 are not.

When starting up, BUBBA server checks the LAN for a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, a home router usually contains one. If it finds one, it requests an IP address from it. This probably means that BUBBA will receive an IP address in the same IP series as other network devices in your LAN (if they also are set to use DHCP to obtain IP addresses). If that’s the case, you won’t have trouble reaching BUBBA by browsing to

http://bubba/ from your windows PC, or http://bubba.local/ from

your MAC (for Linux, see the instructions below). If BUBBA can’t find a DHCP server on your LAN, it takes the IP

address 192.168.0.242. This is the best guess, since home networks often begin with 192.168.0. If the other devices on the network do begin with 192.168.0, you won’t be in trouble either, BUBBA will be available when browsing to http://bubba/

(or

http://bubba.local/

from your MAC).

However, if you don’t have a DHCP server, AND have network devices with IP addresses not beginning with 192.168.0, you have to temporarily change the IP address of your PC, log on to BUBBA and manually change its IP number (using BUBBA’s web interface) to one that suits your LAN, and then change back on your PC again.

3. ADMINISTRATOR

3.1. ADMIN ACCOUNT

Logging in as the administrator you get certain privileges and access to the BUBBA settings.

The default username and password for the administrator account is:

Username: admin Password: admin

This is the default administrator log in page.

The first thing you have to do is to change the administrator password. Clicking on ‘Users’ in the menu to the left, you will see the following page.

Click ‘Edit user’ on the admin row and then ‘Change password’. Read more about users in chapter USERS

3.2. SERVICES

Under ‘Services’ you find this page.

A Linux service is an application (or set of applications) that runs in the background waiting to be used, or carrying out essential tasks.

The Services menu provides menu items that let you administer certain services with either enable (the checkbox marked) or disable (the checkbox unmarked).

• File sharing

o FTP - The BUBBA FTP server o Anonymous FTP access - Allow users to log in to FTP server

without a password.

• Streaming

o UPnP streaming - Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) server.

The server shares/streams media data like audio/video/picture/files to UPnP-clients on the network. OBSERVE that if you are located in a unsecure network; disable UPnP because you are able to browse the whole file system via Mediatombs webinterface. More about Mediatomb in chapter MEDIATOMB MEDIA SERVER

o DAAP streaming - Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP)

server. The server has two functions; it sends a list of songs and it streams requested songs to clients.

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