HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Administrator Guide

5. Execute the command smbpasswd -a username and enter the new samba password. The

password cannot be (null), cannot contain leading or trailing space and no " (Double quotes).

6. Make sure Samba runs after reboot with this command:

chkconfig smb on

7. Make note of the share name, username and password as you will need these when setting

up your appliance Media Server settings.

Setup HTTP access using Apache Web Server for Linux and ESXi deployments

Setup HTTP access on SUSE Linux Media Server

To setup HTTP access on a SUSE Linux Media Server:

1. Edit /etc/apache2/default-server.conf and under the definition of the document

root, add the following:

Alias /Deploy "/usr/MediaServer/Media"

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

Where /Deploy in the first line is the Linux HTTP server path you will need to specify when

setting up the appliance. You can use any name you want here except for the following

reserved characters: < (less than) > (greater than) : (colon) " (double quote) / (forward slash)

\ (backslash) | (vertical bar or pipe) ? (question mark) * (asterisk) [ (open square bracket) ]

(close square bracket) ; (semicolon) = (equal sign) , (comma) + (plus) & (ampersand) ~ (tilde)

? (Question mark) (null) and No leading or trailing space.

2. Start the apache2 service.

service spache2 start

Use a browser to confirm the web server is properly configured. You should be able to browse

to:

http://<ip-of-media-server>/Deploy

and see any files you have in /usr/MediaServer/Media. Note that /Deploy must match

the name you specified above.

If that works, configure the apache server to run all of the time.

chkconfig apache2 on

Populate the Media folder with the distributions you wish to serve.

Setup HTTP Access on Red Hat Linux Media Server

To setup HTTP access on a Red Hat Linux Media Server:

1. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following lines below the definition of

the document root: