Hi Graham Hope I can answer a couple of your questions, or at least give you a few ideas.
On the portable router front I use a d-link DAP-1350 it's very easy to set up under ubuntu (or anything else for that matter) and has numerous options for sharing access, securing networks etc - cost around £50. http://www.dlink.com/DAP-1350 <%20http://www.dlink.com/DAP-1350> If you want to reduce costs further, you can actually just share the wireless that's built into your laptop. I apologise my current location means I am using a desperately slow connection so can't dig out the exact document, but this should give you somewhere to start. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/ShareEthernetConnectionThroughWireless As for a cheap "NAS" solution - if it is to be used in the setup you describe below you could just share either a folder on the server across the network, or if you needed more storage you can do the same with a USB drive using the same method, so at most that would cost the price of a new drive, https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/internet/C/networking-shares.html Goes through a few options for you. There is samba as which is useful if the other people in the room are running window. Anyway – hope that will gets you started. On 26 January 2012 20:26, Graham Smith <myotis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not actually sure what I should be asking here, but I would like to be > able to set up a laptop as a server running questionnaires (created with > StatPac) that need a cgi-bin folder to run a perl script. > > I would then like to allow people to access the questionnaire from their > laptops via a wireless connection to the laptop/server. Everyone would be > in the same room. > > I see there are things called portable wireless routers, is this as simple > as installing a Ubuntu server version on the laptop, and plugging in the > router. Then letting the users find the wireless connection. > > Can anyone advise on what sort of problems I might have, and suggest a low > cost wireless router that might suit. I also see their are wireless NASs > and wondered if that might provide an alternative approach. > > I will obviously need to read up a bit (a lot) about setting up a network, > but I would appreciate any comments that will highlight any key issues I > would need to consider. > > Many thanks, > > Graham > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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