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After a LONG stint in family...er....heaven...I am back and with the motivation to finally see what I can do with funplug so I installed ffp .5 ....

I have spent the last 3 whole days trying to understand and learning by the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat...more defeat than anything else!!  But I have managed to get ffp installed following the link to the 'how-to' for .5.   i come from the days of Amiga and unix networking with Amigas and pcs...but I was never really good at it...Samba....I got it working, that's all I'll say......So I would say I don't really understand what is going on yet...
  Anyway, I followed the how-to and various links there and elsewhere and installed .5 (a note here...some sources say to chmod fun_plug.sh 777 (or at least 744)....some say to just put funplug .5 in the root dir of the 323 and reboot  -  I did not get the chmod thing and therefore did not do it but on reboot it installed!)
  I skipped the upgrade part as it was a fresh install.
  I used the XP telnet to o <IP> and saw the Linux prompt...didn't understand it but followed the how-to...
  I went to 'The Root User' section of the how-to and set a password.  When prompted for Login:  I had NO CLUE what it wanted until I reasoned Fonz's 'root' is the system admin on Linux sentence ment 'root' is the login and then the PW prompt appeared!  COOL BEANS!!
  I got logged on and then followed the how-to.  I started SSH and decided to leave telnet active by not including the 'chmod a-x telnet.sh' command (hope this is no a problem).  So I can login with either telnet or SSH with password.
  Again, following the how-to I did Lighttpd Web Server, enabled PHP and then the port swap/mapping trick (a question here...so now I have Lighttpd on port 80 it seems that the goahead web login screen will only come up if I type in a browser <IP>:81 ....And it no longer appears in My Network Places.  Can I fix this so it will show up in network places?  I tried to edit the goahead.htm file with vi (after about 50 hours of fumbling around!) but was nervous about an "HTM" file saving properly in vi).  Also, what do I do now?  Is it correct to expect that my relatives can login to the web server and look at pages I have there?  My goal is a simpler way for others to get pictures stored on the 323 other than through FTP...  they are very basic users and a web page based system would do the trick!  How do I get the pages in the www/pages dir?  This is when I learned that the ffp and associated dir's cannot be written to through the Win desktop!!??
  Most of my time was spent learning to navigate in a shell (if that is what you call it) or in the telnet environment and learning the dir structure (is there a Linux "list" command or something to show the files and directories in the place I am at in the tree?)  I also spent lots of time CAREFULLY typing in the commands and reading them to try and understand what they are doing.  Starting and stopping a service is pretty easy now even though it was daunting in the beginning!  I spent lots of time comparing what I saw on the telenet window with the opened window of the 323 on XP desktop.
  I did not do the OpenSSH Secure Shell Server as I do not understand what this is and I think the how-to was above my head...
  I did not do the Network time Protocol either for the same reason as above.  It seems .5 how-to is mostly written for people with SOME experience...
  I DID do the Mediatomb Media Server and am able to type the <IP>:94152 in a browser (DL'ed Firefox since Mediatomb said it was limited in Explorer)  I do not quite understand the line "http://bob:94152" Fonz has in the how-to......Is bob ment to be my IP address?  Additionally, after starting Mediatomb I saw that I did not have a correct dir structure for the media files...(this is where I force learned vi!!!)  so now I get to Mediatomb on my browser but that is where I get stumped.  After several stop, edit mediatomb.sh and start Mediatomb sessions I got vi somewhat down but I still have no files in my media directory.  Any help here?  Do I also need to edit the Mediatomb config.xml file?
  I also was able to get the additional packages from his FTP site.  Is my understanding here that I used some sort of download command to go to his ftp from telnet (at this point it is PuTTY) and download the packages and install them?
  I think I have come a long way in understanding what is happening and what I am doing but I am now stumpped as to what...or where to go from here!  I have followed lots of links to see what might be next......learn to config, maybe, a service??  But unfortunately the jargon used might be giving me the answer but I just cannot see it!
  Many thanks to Fonz as I do not think I would have tried all this if it wasn't for his how-to.
  I know this is a long thread and I thank you for your time and effort reading it.  If you can answer one (or more) of my many questions I would be very thankful!!

Jeff