Turning my computer into a server for videos

Hello I wanted to get some advice as to which most suits my needs. I have a pdf document that will have clickable links that should cause a video to pop up in a browser. It's only for personal use as it's a video curriculum that I want to be able to refer to before I teach something. Instead of searching for videos on my hard drive I want to arrive there after a single click. Is this something that you can do with OSX server?
Thanks
Wil

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Your ISP's modem and if you use an additonal WiFi router, there are bulit-in firewall protection and there is software there you can access from a web browser to set stronger security from these devices.
OS X doesn't need any additonal third party software firewalls.
Uninstall Trusteer Rapport per the instructions on the software developer's website.
This app, usually, causes problems with any recent version of OS X.
You might want to go though your user login items to see which one's, if any! you really need to have start up once you are initially logged in to your Mac.
Add or remove automatic items
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups.
Select your user account, then click Login Items.
Do one of the following:
Click Add below the list on the right, select an app, document, folder, or disk, then click Add.If you don’t want an item’s windows to be visible after login, select Hide. (Hide does not apply to servers, which always appear in the Finder after login.)
Select the name of the item you want to prevent from opening automatically, then click Delete below the list on the right.
You need to update all of your third party software if there are OS X Mavericks updates that can be applied.
You may need to go the third party developers' websites if there are no updates through the Mac App Store.
Update all of your Web browser Internet plugins, also.
Also, if you have any third party devices, like keyboards, mice, drawing tablets, hubs, card readers, etc, you need to update the drivers for these devices to OS X Mavericks compatible versions.
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We currently have a home office that has been hard wired directly to our Fiber connection. We have a DIA line and 5 static IP's. I have setup a switch in the office and running a direct connection from the fiber to it. From there each machine (including the hub) is connected. Each machine is setup with a static IP and can access the drives via the hub.
My problem is the speed of connection to the drives. Its extremely slow for anyone plugged in besides the iMac. My thinking is to purchase a Mac Mini and set it up as a server with a Pegasus Raid attached (http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?m=192&region=en-global&rsn1=40& rsn3=47) that can be accessed by all the machines on the network.
Is that all that I would have to do to be able to get each machine (and users from other locations who remotely login) access to the footage at a high rate of speed on transfer?
I hope I've worded this correctly and that someone can help.

I heavily use iTunes (190 GB), iPhoto (120 GB) and iMovie (30 GB, but want to do more when I get time). Additionally, I store lots of old videos on circa 10 portable hard drives (1 TB each), which I access occasionally.
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[…] We want all our music and pictures in single master libraries that we can all access and update.
The "update" portion of this is where your problems will arise. You'd be better to consider your proposed system initially in terms of content "consumption", before getting into the nitty-gritty of editing shared content.
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We are a small eiting studio with an early 2008 MacPro (maxed out on ram) with a 4 Port SATA card, 2 27" 2013 iMac's, and we will be purchasing a new MACPRO once they're released. We work with Final Cut X primarily and would like to create a server solution to share media assets between the computers as well as insure our media assets are protected. Ultimately we see us moving toward an LTO tape backup solution for projects and we currently use the Acera 8 slot 32tb Raid for media storage. We use .DMG's to organize projects and we've had success networking the MacPro to one of the 27" iMac's and we can effectively mount projects off of the RAID on to both computers as long as the .DMG for that project isn't mounted on both computers. However we can really only run background processing (like rendering or inputing video) we can't really edit as it appears even with a CAT6 capabled connecting the two still isn't enough to be able to edit.
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Any help is appreciated and I would be glad to fill in any blanks if I left any.
Lastly, I might add that I'm not a fan of onebox solutions from the vendors, I believe that Apple has the products I need to do what I'm talking about and most 3rd party one-box solutions end up out-moded with in years of purchase.
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Gigabit Ethernet can be limiting for large file transfers, which usually segues into either 10 GbE NICs and/or (less desirably) link aggregation and/or an Xsan configuration with Fibre Channel SAN storage, if you really needed the I/O speed and scale.
If you're serving large volumes of data and it's the the server-to-host Gigabit Ethernet link that is the limit (as differentiated from the RAID array or related I/O link as the bottleneck), then you're left to either or both 10 GbE NICs and FC HBAs, whether via Thunderbolt HBA adapter or via FC HBA in a PCIe slot. (Thunderbolt is not an option on any current Mac Pro or Mac Pro Server I'm aware of. That'd be PCIe. Conversely, recent iMac systems have Thunderbolt and no PCIe. And there's no Thunderbolt to 10 GbE NIC listed by Apple.)
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I'm new to the MAC world. I turned my computer on from 'sleep' mode, and a window was up stating that the IOS disk was full; asked me to force quit, then it just froze. It's been 2 hours. Help! I'm worried about losing photos/videos of my children. Im not sure if there's something special I need to do once I turn it back on; in the meantime, its still on... which I'm afraid the picture on the screen will burn into the screen. Does that happen on iMac's? Thx!

Try a hard reset. ( holding Power til it restarts)
Once to your desktop. Click the Apple icon >> About this mac >> More info>> Storage
Once you see what you have the most of. Try to see what you can delete.
Open up any folder>>all files>> or buy an external to store more data.
Once deleting make sure you empty your trash.
If you are new and its a new computer, you might need to bring it to a store for further assistence.
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Since updating to OS X Yosemite, I am unable to save files into another computer or server. I have to save it on my desktop and then drag it into the server. How do i correct this?

Since updating to OS X Yosemite, I am unable to save files into another computer or server. I have to save it on my desktop and then drag it into the server. How do i correct this?

Ok this worked to solve the error.
Use cmd prompt in windows 7 or 8 and run as admin:
sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi
sc config mrxsmb20 start= disabled
No need for all that power shell nonsense as shown elsewhere for windows 8.
That's it. Also force smb2 disabling on the apple side for good measure.
With the above I was able to network mavericks and windows 8.1 pro flawlessly. He issues I had before where I could not read video, ISO and audio files (but could open documents and pictures from the windows machine connected to an apple network share folder went away.

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I replaced my PowerMac G5 with a new iMac. I needed an Intel Mac to run Adobe CS4. I feel like it's a waste of a perfectly good computer to let the G5 become a doorstop.
I was thinking of turning it into a server. I was going to download a demo of the Mac server OS, but they stopped offering it as a demo. Can I turn it into a Linux server? Any recommendations?

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What do you want to run on it? NAS?
Have alook at Atom-based (Intel) boxes? HP has a nice unit with 5-10TB of storage, eSATA and USB as well as internal drives, just needs a good giga switch.
For what it costs to run a G5, well, they do make nice room heaters in the winter, I don't think turning it into a server is always the best, and you are probably looking at spending on internal or external storage in most cases unless you have a storage array already.
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I keep getting "Unable to connect" for my firefox. It was working yesterday and I turned my computer off. I can get to the web using internet explorer 9. I don't know why my firefox is not working. Everything else is working. HELP....

I keep getting "Unable to connect" for my firefox. It was working yesterday and I turned my computer off. I can get to the web using internet explorer 9. I don't know why my firefox is not working. Everything else is working.

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Final Cut Server is for video and photo archiving?

Too many products in the last few years. I used to use iPhoto to archive both photos and video and edit them. Now I have moved to the professional line but it gets more confusing.
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We were in a similar situation as well.
We use Adobe products for photo and desktop stuff
and FCP Suite for video.
We ingest images with Bridge and add keywords.
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are processed (Photoshop/Image Processor) and dropped
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easy access as well as backs up the images to an
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