Small remote access server

[Bosif347]

So my buddy recently bought my old pc and I upgraded, Leaving me with his old pc that I want to turn into a server with remote access storage for just us three to be able to access. We don't live in the same house and aren't on the same network so I need some way to run a remote access storage server and have the ability to grant access to whomever would like to store files in the server that we all can view/access/download. I'm very experienced with PC building and what not but server stuff I'm not so sure about. If anyone can give me a solid walkthrough/suggestions etc. that'd be awesome. Hope this is enough info to know what I mean. I'll also be using the server pc for hosting various game servers, not that i need the extra performance, that one is just aesthetic.

[tt2468]

Load ubuntu with owncloud, then run the server at someone's house.

[Bosif347]

2 minutes ago, tt2468 said:

Load ubuntu with owncloud, then run the server at someone's house.

I should have added this server pc will be running windows 10 home simply bc i cant afford windows server lol, and it will be running at my house over my network. But i will look into those

[Electronics Wizardy]

15 minutes ago, Bosif347 said:

I should have added this server pc will be running windows 10 home simply bc i cant afford windows server lol, and it will be running at my house over my network. But i will look into those

No reason to use windows server anyways, the features won't help you here.

 

Id use owncloud or ftp to share the files, depending on if you want a google drive like experence with owncloud and a web interface or a basic ftp system

 

[Goksha]

You could run any share system you want, and configure site to site vpns on your edge devices. However, your edge devices would need to support this.