Help with making a Minecraft LAN server

[randomdude]

Hello everyone,
I recently bought a Raspberry pi Model B and I'd like to use for various things, including to host a Minecraft server. I've been able to host an online server with the help of tutorials, but the problem is that I'd like to host a normal LAN server that can only be accessed on the network it is hosted on. All information about Minecraft servers on RPi I've found regard making online servers, which is not what I want to do. I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to host a LAN server instead and would be grateful for any help or tips.
If there is no way to do this using the standard minecraft server files for hosting an online server, I was thinking that maybe it can be done by running the normal minecraft through the command line, starting a single player game, and then typing the command "publish" to host the single player world online. If anyone knows how to do this by only using the command line and without GUI, that would also be very helpful.

Thanks

[Helper]

I saw this post and didnt have a account but couldnt help but answer this because i know your dieing for a answer. Unfortunately, the pi is very good for basic things but it is not very powerful in computer terms this will not even meet the specs to run Minecraft, plus the CPU is very good for its price but lacks for hosting a server and last but not least another thing about hosting your own lan server on the pi is the machine just doesnt have a lot of RAM which is very important for server running. Soon i will be getting a pi too and the machine is great for its price plus i just love the innovation and inspiration behind it. The pi is good for watching videos browsing the web and coding plus doing other things like programming it and then maybe putting it in a robot. It is very cool but it doesnt quite seal the bill for your matters. Thank you in all regards.

[DougieLawson]

Eh?
You are 100% wrong. There's loads of folk running minecraft servers on their RPis.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27889
http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspber ... /?ALLSTEPS
http://www.raspberrypi.org/minecraft-server/

You'll probably want the Java8 JDK

[randomdude]

I know its not ideal for a server, but I've seen it done myself and even tried it so I know it can work, even if a little laggy
So does anyone have any ideas how I would do what I am trying to?