Baking Pi – Part 1

After starting with a Raspberry Pi that was just too simple to set up as XMBC media centre for daughter #1 bedroom, it soon became a permanent feature there – meaning, of course, that I needed another…

I now have my second helping of Pi – again I got a Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB RAM).

I’m running this mostly headless and wanted to post a few pointers on my setup (so I can recall it when I trash the Raspbian OS and have to restart from scratch.

After a standard Raspbian install I am doing the following actions / configurations :

  • Basic configuration via raspi-config
  • Setting a static IP address
  • Updating all packages
  • Adding a custom port to listen for SSH on (for remote access through home router)
  • Setting up vsftpd

Here is the step by step guide:

Basic configuration via raspi-config

  • Make an SSH connection to the device and login (pi / raspberry)
  • From the command line run sudo raspi-config
  • Upgrade raspi-config
  • Configure as required.

Setting up a static IP address

  • From the command line run sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
  • Change iface eth0 inet dhcp to iface eth0 inet static image
  • below this add…
  • address 192.168.97.12
  • netmask 255.255.255.0
  • gateway 192.168.97.1
  • Now reboot (sudo reboot)

Updating all packages

  • From the command line run sudo apt-get update
  • From the command line run sudo apt-get upgrade
  • Now reboot (sudo reboot)

Adding a customer port to listen for SSH on

  • From the command line run sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  • Add a line under where it says Port 22
  • Type Port xxxx on the new line (where xxxx is your desired additional port number)

Setting up vsftpd (FTP Server)

  • From the command line run sudo apt-get install vsftpd
  • Now edit the config file to change the port is listens on
  • From the command line run sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
  • Under the line that reads listen=YES add the following lines
  • listen_port=xxxx (where xxxx is your desired port)
  • pasv_enable=YES
  • pasv_min_port=yyyyy (where yyyyy is the lower range of ports you want it to use)
  • pasv_max_port=zzzzz (where zzzzz is the upper range of ports you want it to use)
  • Now restart the vsftpd service with sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

All done. The Pi is now configured to allow SSH and FTP access on custom ports (with corresponding holes through the firewall to allow external access). Enjoy…


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