Convert Your PC to a Web Server

Tonido is a simple tool that converts your home PC to a web server for photo, file and calendar sharing, and much more

Saturday, August 01, 2009

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Tonido is a software that lets you convert your PC or media center into a server which will have an online jukebox, a picture viewer, a personal note keeper, an email client, an online desktop share, a web share, etc directly running from your PC. All you need is a broadband Internet connection, an Internet modem or router which has port forwarding support, either manual or UPnP. Tonido can be downloaded for Windows, MAC, and Linux flavors such as Ubuntu and its derivatives, and Debian. You can even convert the DEB file to RPM by using Alien and install it on Open SUSE. However, no support is available for RedHat and Fedora. Once downloaded, the installation is a cakewalk. Just one click will do the rest. Once installed, a webpage with the address 127.0.0.1:10001 will open. This is for both access and configuration.

This is the login page. Here, you need to create a profile by clicking on 'create profile' button. A wizard will guide you through the rest of the process.	Give a name to the profile. The software will create a link to Tonido's website using this name. This link will be used for accessing your machine.

Once the profile has been created, login to Tonido to do the rest of the configuration tasks, such as port forwarding, etc.	After you have logged in, click on the setup link just next to your profile details. This will start another wizard.

Follow the wizard till it asks you to 'enable remote access.' Next, click on the check box to enable the remote access link.	To make sure users land on the correct system, you have to do port forwarding in your router. If your router supports UPnP, then it's as simple as clicking on Next in the wizard.

Now you can access the site through the Tonido link. Go to the applications section and you will see all the applications installed in Tonido.	Using the Photos option in Tonido, you can select a folder with pictures on your system and share it with the outside world by publishing it through the link.

For publishing photos, you get all standard features such as categorizing, commenting, rating, etc, which you get on any public photo sharing website.	A very nifty calendaring and task Management feature provided by Tonido. It can be accessed and updated from anywhere.

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