[gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
I've got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn't getting used much anymore. The processor, memory MB are all reasonably good - i5-661 4GB - but my laptop VM

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Spidey
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:38, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn't getting used much anymore. The processor,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Spidey spide...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:38, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Years ago I tried this basic guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml I don't remember why but I didn't have much luck with it.

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:43, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Spidey spide...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:38, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Years ago I tried this basic guide:

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 4, 2011 8:41 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a 2 year old Gentoo machine that got patched together using a lot of small hard drives which worked fine for what I used the machine for 2-3 years ago but the machine isn't getting used much anymore. The processor,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread kashani
On 10/4/2011 8:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Yes. Samba is the basis of the link above, and I figure it's going to be the underlying technology that does the work. I was just wondering if there was a more user oriented, possibly GUI based app that did all the dirty work sort of like the CUPS web

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: SNIP If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? Rgds, Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these. Some comments:

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 10/4/2011 8:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Yes. Samba is the basis of the link above, and I figure it's going to be the underlying technology that does the work. I was just wondering if there was a more user oriented,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: SNIP If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'?

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: SNIP If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of installing