Check out the Raspberry Pi Pirate Box or the Library Box. I did a talk on the Pi version at Algonquin a few years ago. It may be exactly what you are looking for. There have been a few derives since then. It appears that the pirate box is no longer maintained, and there are a few alternatives. Maybe freedom Box is the answer. I don’t know how good it would be without an Internet connection, as it is designed to work as a community mesh network. Again, it may serve for what you would like. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox This may be a gook place to get additional ideas: http://nethood.org/links/ > On Mar 26, 2021, at 13:47, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > > 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 > 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