-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 TekBudda wrote:
> What I am looking for is suggestions on a NAS software. I have been > some research, bugging others, ect & have tentatively short-listed to > the folowing: > * FreeNAS > * Openfiler > * NASLite I have a few friends running FreeNAS and they all seem to like it. One of them is using it as an iSCSI target for his VMWare ESXi (almost all of his home boxes are virtualized). I will probably always have a reasonably beefy Linux box in the basement so having a seperate PC for file sharing does not really make sense to me. I have a reasonably modern AMD machine that does frequency scaling, so even with 8 drives it is not too bad on power. I also have a Dlink DNS-323 (2x500GB) for network backups and a DNS-343 (4x1TB) for network media storage. I tend to shy away from the older PCs for reliability, performance, and energy consumption reasons. > >>From what I can tell they have very minimal requirements & may suit > the purpose. If anyone has any other suggestions, let me know. > > Incidentally, I am currently running Server 2003, but will soom be > adding a CentOS box that I want to sync with AD, etc. & the clients > will be Win2K, WinXP, Linux, MacOS (9 to start & possible OS X). I > will liley have a couple PDA's to throw in as well...LOL...just to > complicate matters. PAM and Kerberos are two things you are probably going to want to read up on. For me I had Windows XP authenticating against the Linux "server" via ssh and pGina. > > I have 2 160 GB (IDE) disks and was going to try & RAID them in teh > SFF box (if they fit), but optionally would have one disk in teh box & > have an external USB drive for backup of teh main disk. > > So am I nuts.....on teh right track??? > Depends. Unless storage really floats your boat or you really need it, then yes you are probably nuts. Running Server 2003 at home also does not make much sense to me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJt51qwRXgH3rKGfMRAtjzAJ0RfASYm/Uso/o2Od+ErSCSkhSthACgkB9P RoI86/WuA8L4cBnkDNwVxrU= =q/UR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
