New to Servers

[itachikurosaki121]

So I have aquired a dell PE T610 with windows server 2012 R2 Standard edition on it and i was wondering if there was a guide or video someone could point me in the direction of for basically setting this up as an at home server i can use to store media files and personal files and basically access them off my laptop, chromecast, xbox one or ps4(if possible), and maybe when im out of town on a trip but want to watch something off the server (if possible). I'm sorry if this doesnt make sense like i said im a noob when it comes to this kind of stuff

[tlink]

http://www.freenas.org/for-home/

probably the best and easiest network attached storage. it has everything you want. just google tutorials about it and you'll probably get pretty far on your own   but i do not know if it can interface with a chromecast.

[itachikurosaki121]

1 minute ago, tlink said:

http://www.freenas.org/for-home/

probably the best and easiest network attached storage. it has everything you want. just google tutorials about it and you'll probably get pretty far on your own   but i do not know if it can interface with a chromecast.

so all i do is download it and install it on the Dell T610? or is this for my own personal PC?

[tlink]

29 minutes ago, itachikurosaki121 said:

so all i do is download it and install it on the Dell T610? or is this for my own personal PC?

this is the software for the server, but it has a lot of optional features and whatnot so you should research into the different features and configurations before installing it, or just research it while you go trough the installation process. they have a collection of videos on their website explaining loads of stuff: http://www.freenas.org/about/videos/

 

also keep in mind that this is a whole operating system, not just an application that runs in windows.

[itachikurosaki121]

21 hours ago, tlink said:

this is the software for the server, but it has a lot of optional features and whatnot so you should research into the different features and configurations before installing it, or just research it while you go trough the installation process. they have a collection of videos on their website explaining loads of stuff: http://www.freenas.org/about/videos/

 

also keep in mind that this is a whole operating system, not just an application that runs in windows.

So would i have to basically have 2012 R2 set up and everything or could i basically just boot up the T610 minimize the server manager window that pops up and just install this software?

[Nikolithebear]

23 hours ago, itachikurosaki121 said:

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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/keithmayer/2012/10/21/12-steps-to-ntfs-shared-folders-in-windows-server-2012/

 

There yah go   Try this first then go to FreeNAS.  You can do alot more later down the line with Windows Server then freenas.  

[itachikurosaki121]

On 4/11/2017 at 11:49 PM, Nikolithebear said:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/keithmayer/2012/10/21/12-steps-to-ntfs-shared-folders-in-windows-server-2012/

 

There yah go   Try this first then go to FreeNAS.  You can do alot more later down the line with Windows Server then freenas.  

 

On 4/11/2017 at 1:45 AM, tlink said:

this is the software for the server, but it has a lot of optional features and whatnot so you should research into the different features and configurations before installing it, or just research it while you go trough the installation process. they have a collection of videos on their website explaining loads of stuff: http://www.freenas.org/about/videos/

 

also keep in mind that this is a whole operating system, not just an application that runs in windows.

Thanks to everyone for the help got the T610 running on freenas just ordered more ram and larger hard drives to run my cloud/plex server going to now work on making the T610 strictly a plex server and use the 2970 as my cloud