This is a request to chat/email rather than specific query. I've an old Asus EEE Netbook (Bunsenlabs Lithium) that has about 20G of SSD and 2GB RAM which is quite good for the 2008-era tiny laptop. Thought I would try out setting it up to serve files via WiFi. When travelling my wife and I could access the same family history files and avoid thunb-drive chaos, though I'm thinking I'll switch to a Raspberry Pi for serious use. I'm "getting there", and have managed to get SSID to display and client machine to try to connect. I know I've NOT yet got the DHCP set up right. While I'm sure that plenty of checking with various postings and tutorials will get me to the goal line, if anyone has interest in this sort of project and/or expertise, it would be helpful to chat and find out what are the key ingredients for success in this. I can mostly figure out the general purpose of the different config file entries, but not the details, which ultimately might be important. A related effort is into using Gramps under such a setup. Gramps seems unusually focussed on single user, single machine mode, which is very unfortunate, but it is open source (Python). I've been documenting how it structures its data and backups and got a workable if clunky setup using our Synology Diskstation in an export, work, re-import mode, though without locking yet. If of interest, get in touch. I plan to make public what I work out (on 2nd try at the moment -- R Pi share for data was too slow for reasonable use -- interface was slow and jerky). That is, assuming I resolve all the nasty details. Cheers, John Nash To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org