1. Download Ubuntu Server and copy to a usb stick using UNetbootin.
2. Boot your server from the usb stick.
3. The installation is pretty much straightforward. Just select "guided partitioning" and the disk/partition that you want to install to and the installer will do the rest.
4. When prompted for packages to install, select ssh-server and samba.
5. After booting into the new system we need to setup a few things.The 1st is to set up a static IP so that you can connect to the server from elsewhere using ssh.
6. Next we need to setup samba so that we can share our files.
$ nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
Here we can change the workgroup name to match the workgroup name on the machines that will be connecting to the server (WORKGROUP is the Windows 7 default). We also need to specify the folders on the server that will be shared on the network. We do this by adding the following entry at the end of smb.conf:
[public]
comment = Just a comment
path = /path/to/share/point
read only = no
guest only = yes
guest ok = yes
Add one entry per share point and change the path accordingly.
7. Additionally we can install transmission so that our file server can grab torrents.
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